Making Quotes

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?

I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

I love being able to perform in front of people. I like potentially making a difference in somebody's day or somebody's life.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state's structure.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed veterans. I was making 150 bucks a week and it was horrible.