#people

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#actions #deciding #determines #fate #first

What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#character #create #details #huge #i

Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#come #excited #idea #melodic #music

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#artists #creative #creative people #distinguishes #go

Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk. ↗

— Leonhard Euler

#country #hanged #i #madam #people

I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#another #enjoy #i #i always #like

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#film #films #i #make #objectively

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#escape #gotten #just #most #movies

I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#best #best way #catch #could #degree

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#house #i #long #long time #need