#shifted

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#actor #attitude #because #center #child

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#change #civilization #emergence #hundreds #knowing

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company. ↗

— Carson Daly

#company #had #media #nbc #new

To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some ways it is worse than a tax. With a tax, the costs are obvious. With a cap-and-trade system, the costs are hidden and shifted around. For that reason, many politicians tend to like it. But that is dangerous. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#around #cap-and-trade #costs #dangerous #everything

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#directors #films #modest #more #number

Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot. ↗

— Gotye

#becoming #chorus #dropped #ends #fit

Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#always #because #characters #days #difficult

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted. ↗

— Debra Messing

#defining #event #felt #life #like

I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#i #insist #living #never #nothing

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#away #balance #balance of power #european #european powers