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Our film society back home is so different from here. Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language. It's just figuring things out and understanding the codes and how the system of Hollywood compares to that of Norway. We don't even have agents. There's no studio system, no managers.
Morten Tyldum
Home
Language
Understanding
Society
Back
Our
System
Out
Directing
Studio
Studio System
How
Making
Managers
Just
Norway
Different
Movie
Hollywood
Agents
Figuring
Even
Compares
Codes
Film
Things
Universal
Universal Language
Here
Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
Nancy Meyers
Funny
Character
Long
Sense
Awareness
Everybody
Out
Having
Writer
Shape
Puzzle
Know
Look
Make
How
Been
Yes
Fix
Getting
Going
Romantic
Movies
Mean
Them
Creating
Hard
Figuring
Right
Things
Awry
I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
Natalie Maines
Myself
Everyday
Everything
Strip
Out
Stuff
Contemplating
Know
Cheesy
Am
Caught
Sounds
Normal
Lot
Domestic
Up
Get
Did
Just
Grew
Figure
Who
Therapy
Figuring
Away
Things
Needed
I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.
Neil Burger
Myself
Me
Experience
Writing
Try
Challenge
Way
Criteria
Intrigue
Out
Would
Some
Something
Given
Scene
Knock
Like
Know
Liked
Also
Always
Been
Goal
Want
Movie
Movies
Create
Creating
Figuring
I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.
Neri Oxman
Struggle
Architecture
Engineer
Build
Before
Tools
Drawings
Out
Exactly
Object
Advanced
Like
Contemporary
Him
Buildings
How
Ultimately
Very
Send
Form
Hegemony
Create
Used
Figuring
Technological
Most challenging, mainly for me, learning how to bump, learning to trust your body and trust somebody else with your body, when we're learning how to do bodyslams and suplexes and figuring out how to kick somebody right while making sure to protect each other. In the beginning, for me, a forward roll was pretty challenging.
Nia Jax
Me
Learning
Trust
Somebody
Beginning
Other
Else
Kick
Out
Pretty
Mainly
Most
Protect
Sure
How
Making
Bump
Roll
In The Beginning
While
Body
Your
Your Body
Forward
Figuring
Each
Challenging
Right
I moved to New York and went to a performing arts college, but it wasn't until UCB that I started performing on the regular, figuring out how I'm funny, why I'm funny, and how to play with an audience.
Nicole Byer
Funny
College
Out
New
Performing
Performing Arts
Until
Audience
How
York
Moved
Arts
New York
Regular
Figuring
Why
Play
Started
Please, let's talk to American families and sit around the dinner table at night figuring how to pay their bills.
Paul Manafort
Dinner
Sit
Pay
Please
Dinner Table
Table
Talk
Around
How
Families
American
American Families
Figuring
Bills
Night
As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.
Peter Mullan
Life
Rights
Age
Thinking
Back
Out
Telling
About
Emotionally
Like
Wrongs
Course
Them
Plans
Dedicated
Figuring
Dad
Fundamentally, I've always been a fan of actually looking at our whole state tax system and really figuring out how we reform our tax system so that everyone's paying their fair share but we don't have a lot of nickel and diming with 100 taxes that end up hitting people that maybe can't bear it the most.
Pramila Jayapal
People
Looking
State
Everyone
Our
System
Out
Bear
Share
Fair
Most
Fair Share
Always
How
Been
Lot
End
Up
Reform
Hitting
Maybe
Tax
Fan
Tax System
Taxes
Really
Paying
Figuring
Whole
Nickel
Actually
Fundamentally
I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
R. J. Cutler
Life
Myself
Transformation
Think
Other
Teenage
Teenagers
Those
Out
Tell
Find
About
Mythic
Foot
Adulthood
Toward
Periods
Always
Childhood
Stories
Really
Moment
Who
Figuring
I went to college to find myself. That's where I really realized I wanted to be a recording artist and started on the process of figuring out how to do that.
Raheem DeVaughn
Myself
College
Recording
Out
Find
Recording Artist
How
Artist
Where
Wanted
Process
Realized
Really
Figuring
Started
On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.
Rami Malek
Day
You
Risks
Liberty
Films
Television
Out
Details
More
Takes
Taking
Because
Than
Maybe
Just
Just Because
Psychology
Working
Figuring
Things
I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.
Reggie Jackson
Time
Business
Money
Losing
Trouble
Out
Would
Stay
Athletes
Give
Up
Owner
Owners
Hard
Figuring
Hard Time
Why
Believing
Every stage of filmmaking's important while you're doing it, so I spend most of my time figuring out how to tell the story. I have all these stories and ideas, but it's how to tell the story.
Richard Linklater
Time
You
Important
Stage
Every
Spend
Out
Tell
My Time
Ideas
Most
How
Doing
Stories
Story
While
Figuring
Filmmaking
I think that if there's some innovative entrepreneurs out there who can help teach people how they can cost-effectively help themselves and their planet, I think everybody would be for it. That's going to be the challenge - figuring a way to get the marketplace and commerce to teach us consumers another way.
Ricky Schroder
People
Challenge
Think
Everybody
Innovative
Way
Marketplace
Out
Would
Would-Be
Some
Entrepreneurs
Consumers
Another
Another Way
How
Commerce
Get
Going
Themselves
Us
Planet
Teach
Help
Who
Figuring
When you're a musician, one of the things that comes to you in the beginning that is quite unexpected is the reaction from your fans, and to the way your music plays an important part in their life in figuring things out.
Rob Halford
Life
Music
You
Fans
Important
Beginning
Way
Musician
Out
One Of The Things
Part
Reaction
Important Part
Unexpected
Quite
In The Beginning
Your
Figuring
Things
Plays
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.
Robin Wasserman
Writing
Building
Down
Way
Parachute
Outline
Obsessive
Like
Without
Cliff
Off
Jumping
Used
Figuring
I just don't spend maybe enough time figuring out my place. Maybe I do in the world, but not so much in Hollywood.
Rosemarie DeWitt
Time
World
Enough
Enough Time
Spend
Out
Maybe
Just
Place
Hollywood
Much
Figuring
I wish I had known that that process of figuring out what you're good at, what you want to do, and where you want to have an impact is not a one-time exercise, but an ongoing one. Instead, I bought into success being an endpoint rather than a constant process.
Sallie Krawcheck
Success
Good
You
Wish
Out
Constant
Impact
Ongoing
Rather
Had
Bought
Instead
Known
Exercise
Than
Being
Where
Want
Process
Figuring
I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.
Sam Hunt
Music
Back
Out
Pretty
About
Pursuing
Never
Looked
Ready
Nashville
Go
Moved
Figuring
Whole
Thing
'Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end of the book and writing other stuff... My life as a writer was carried on against the odds. I had written four unpublished novels by then... as a writer of fiction, I hadn't gotten very far. I just wanted to do it.
Scott Turow
Life
Book
Writing
Innocent
My Life
Year
Odds
Other
Intervals
Seven
Carried
Out
Unpublished
Writer
Had
Written
Between
Stuff
Over
Period
Gotten
End
Very
Six
Just
Where
Fiction
Wanted
In-Between
Against
Far
Then
Figuring
Novels
Four
I think that's the real work of leadership: figuring out where you really believe you have significant risk.
Shari L. Ballard
Work
Leadership
You
Believe
Think
Out
Significant
Risk
Real
Where
Real Work
Really
Figuring
Answering phones synchronously is very different than reading an email, sorting it, figuring out which bucket it goes in, and then responding.
Shiva Ayyadurai
Phones
Reading
Email
Responding
Out
Bucket
Sorting
Answering
Very
Than
Goes
Different
Which
Then
Figuring
'First things first' might be a cliche, but it's a useful one that means prioritizing what matters most to you and believing there is no wrong answer. When it comes to figuring this out for yourself, the careful binary of work or life entirely misses the point.
Stacey Abrams
Life
Work
You
Yourself
Binary
First
Matters
Out
Entirely
Point
Wrong
Misses
Most
Cliche
First Things
Answer
Might
Means
Useful
Figuring
Believing
Things
Careful
That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.
Steven Squyres
Science
Out
Stuff
Like
Trying
Just
Really
Figure
Figuring
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