Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Some of the hard part of coaching is to be able to drag people over to the next side. People are comfortable… — Mike D'Antoni Copy Share Image
I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Every cell in our body is primarily water. But the water doesn't just sit in the cell, it moves through it in… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
Sales of corsets doubled between 1948 and 1958, possibly as part of the process of putting women back into the box, as… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process -… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the initial actors that develop it end… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents… — George B. Hartzog Jr Copy Share Image
Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit… — Raymond Scott Copy Share Image
It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
An example I love: Diwata auditioned for the school play by doing a big number from Once Upon A Mattress. I went… — Sarah Steele Copy Share Image
Very thorough in the rehearsal process but more in terms of just understanding the characters, understanding where the actors are at with… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
The continuing, direct operation of the Holy Ghost on those who are called to be God's children implies, in fact, a broadening… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
What you need to do is protect the structures and dynamics that are helping the people choose. The only thing that we… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
The idea [of the Fourth Phase ] was that by taking a closer look at where our weather comes from, and the… — Travis Rice Copy Share Image
We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs… — Peter Hain Copy Share Image
Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers.… — Constantinos C. Markides Copy Share Image
I would say I work very emotionally: I have a very compulsive way of working, where I love something to the moment… — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement,… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
When people ask a question that is based on a false premise or a question that skips over some details... what we… — Jen Psaki Copy Share Image
Science is the process of crash testing ideas: you ram the idea head-on into a brick wall at 60mph, and knowledge is… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
It's not easy working with your husband, I'll be straight up about that. But when we work together, we always get great… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind… — David Antin Copy Share Image
At one point, I was greenlighting films and scripts that shouldn't have been made based on the fact that they had that… — Cuba Gooding, Jr Copy Share Image
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
'Iron Chef America' is so real. Imagine putting on television the whole process of making that food, the technique. It's all about… — Alex Guarnaschelli Copy Share Image
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
It's a really interesting situation, because when you make music at home all the energy goes into the process, and touring's all… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
People are starting to realize that the disability community has been disenfranchised and deserves to have its rights recognized, which I see… — Jay Ruderman Copy Share Image
Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the… — Gavyn Davies Copy Share Image
When you are a filmmaker, you need to be rooted, because committing yourself to producing or directing a film is a good… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image