#produce

The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the record, the final masters, the artwork. Basically, I hand them a record. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#basically #final #get #hand #i

Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#agents #box #get #imaginations #into

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#always #detest #egotism #failure #feeling

The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV. ↗

— John Sununu

#argument #because #coarse #debate #drives

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#acting #ask #be prepared #being #calm

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. ↗

— William Godwin

#produce #reason #revolutions #sober #tranquil

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#bad #general #impression #moral #picture

The people on 'Quintuplets' were great, but I wasn't a producer on that show, and it wasn't exactly my taste. ↗

— Andy Richter

#great #i #people #producer #show

You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#behind #class #family #hide #more

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#any #capacity #change #environment #learning