I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
I was supporting other people's creative dreams and I wasn't supporting my own. I didn't feel like I could really serve people… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it.… — Philip Abelson Copy Share Image
I have a New Year's tradition. I lay all my travel dreams on the table, sort them out, prioritize, and begin the… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
Writing and producing the show is an intellectual process. Performing the show is far more athletic and intuitive, because you don't get… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line…… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Stepping out of the director's chair completely and into a scene as an actor was weird. It was more excitement about directing… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
One of the things that happens that's challenging within the democratic process is that people say, 'Look at this failure, so we… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of… — William James Copy Share Image
If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during… — Marc Ostrofsky Copy Share Image
The perfection of life with a gun dog, like the perfection of an Autumn, is disturbing because you know, even as it… — George Bird Evans Copy Share Image
There are producers, like the late Geoffrey Perkins, who have truly great ideas that will fire up your synapses and show you… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
The nation should be able to remove by an orderly constitutional process any president with an unyielding commitment to failed policies and… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it… — David Arquette Copy Share Image
Like any other creative person, I would make home videos, and I would make sketches with my friends, and I would make… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
I like acting, alright, and it can be fun sometimes, but the process of it, of not being - not being the… — Todd Louiso Copy Share Image
When the script is finished, and you're sitting around at a table read, and all the actors are reading the words that… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
The United States is very important, too important in the civilizational process of the world. It's difficult to move, to make a… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
For me, the fiction writer's job is to take the small, stupid process of learning to use an iPhone - and suddenly… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We are deluged with information. We have to process now three times as much data as we would have done 50 years… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
Many people are allergic to process and structure because it causes traumatic flashbacks of working at BigCo and suffering through bureaucracy for… — Christine Tsai Copy Share Image
Technical devices or processes which receive intensified investment during cold or hot wars spread through societies contagiously once their monopoly by the… — Kode9 Copy Share Image
A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
When people were subjected to the impeachment and removal process, Aaron Burr was right there, looking out for their rights, even though… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and the process of making… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
Obviously, I like very beautiful food, because I think as delicious as food has to taste, it also has to look very… — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When it comes to the effective stewardship of our nation's security - especially during crises - the most successful administrations had three… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
