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Robert Zemeckis is a genius filmmaker who is an amazing individual. I feel really blessed that I've gotten to work with him on many different occasions.
Charles Fleischer
Work
Genius
Amazing
Blessed
Individual
Feel
Robert
Him
Occasions
Gotten
Different
Really
Who
Many
Filmmaker
Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak.
Charles Hazlewood
Happiness
Wisdom
People
Joy
Genius
World
Dance
Few
Pain
Else
Constantly
Fine
Fine Line
Something
More
Absolute
He
Between
Know
Most
Line
Condition
Western
Up
Western World
Heartbreak
Than
Few People
Human
Anyone
Anyone Else
In-Between
Human Condition
Which
Mozart
Captured
Grow
Grow Up
Why
Necessarily
Received
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Charles Horton Cooley
Genius
World
Mediocrity
Too
Rise
Above
More
Somewhat
Talent
Likely
Than
Sensitive
Shrewd
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
Charles de Lint
You
Genius
Think
Mad
Parcel
Part
Part And Parcel
Artistic
Being
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
Chauncey Wright
Science
Genius
Progress
Men
Rather
Civilization
Tendency
Individual
Combined
Than
Owe
Any
Energies
Inherent
Indians take great pleasure in celebrating a genius, and then go into mindless criticism once the celebrity starts doing well.
Chinmayi
Great
Genius
Criticism
Starts
Mindless
Once
Pleasure
Indians
Great Pleasure
Take
Well
Doing
Go
Celebrating
Celebrity
Then
Jerome Robbins, to me, is the genius of a lifetime.
Chita Rivera
Me
Genius
Lifetime
I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.
Christoph Waltz
Genius
Word
Think
Sondheim
Close
Gets
Use
Ever
Hardly
I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't anything fancy about the stage direction in my scripts.
Christopher Priest
Me
Genius
Stage
Jim
About
Direction
Make
Lee
Trained
Shooter
Anything
Fancy
Scripts
Storytelling
Really
Stan
Larry
I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.
Claire Danes
Genius
Nerdy
Am
I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
Clint Eastwood
Me
Genius
Met
Finding
Hates
Someone
Something
Never
He
Well
Does
Subject
Question
Just
Anybody
Loves
Who
The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.
Clive Thompson
Genius
Design
Something
Exchange
Cheap
Idea
Concept
Model
Forgo
Lovely
Unique
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
Comte de Lautreamont
Alone
Health
Balance
Quality
Genius
Intelligence
Other
Sums
Plus
Through
Faculties
Qualities
Supreme
Up
Taste
Which
Fundamental
Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena.
Cornelia Parker
Genius
Think
Both
Outside
Come
Ideas
Most
Box
Got
Scientists
Artists
Experiments
Interesting
Expose
Phenomena
This world has a way of trying to homogenize you. Trying to sanitize you. Trying to scrub you of your unique divine genius. This world wants to make you regular.
Cory Booker
You
Genius
World
Way
Divine
Make
Trying
Wants
Scrub
Regular
Your
Unique
People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm not at all. You've got the Internet and music - you put them together, and people hear your music.
Courtney Barnett
Music
Me
You
Together
People
Genius
Treat
Internet
Own
Innovative
Wow
Record
Some
Record Label
Put
Like
Sort
Got
Hear
Label
Them
Your
Started
With so many delicious varieties and flavors ranging from subtle to bold, Keebler and Carr's crackers are an unexpectedly genius way to celebrate leftovers and serve up one-of-a-kind recipes.
Damaris Phillips
Celebrate
Genius
Recipes
Way
Delicious
Up
Leftovers
Crackers
Unexpectedly
Subtle
Flavors
Many
Bold
Serve
The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
Damian Woetzel
Time
Theatre
Genius
Decision
National
Gone
Living
Could
Had
House
Make
Became
Ballet
Were
Repertoire
Canada
Options
Realized
Exposed
Last
Career
Last Time
It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians.
Damien Chazelle
You
Musicians
People
Genius
Tough
Jazz
Other
Out
Super
Emerge
Totally
Mention
Weird
Weird Thing
Being
Where
Cutting
Each
Thing
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
Damien Hirst
Genius
Think
Possibly
Rembrandt
Picasso
Like
Michelangelo
Might
Painter
There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.
Dan Harmon
Women
Writing
Genius
Job
Looking
Out
Percentage
Both
Same
Happening
Scripts
Less
Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
Dan Hill
Saying
Best
Me
Hate
Genius
Will
Ali
Channels
Lyrics
Boomer
Only
Inventive
Highly
New
Match
His
West
Friends
Dylan
Storytelling
Much
Kanye
Kanye West
Muhammad
Muhammad Ali
I sometimes think that life is a circle. See, I cannot get away from genius. At Barca, I had Messi. At Juve, I have Paulo Dybala. Genius follows me everywhere, I swear.
Dani Alves
Life
Me
Genius
Sometimes
Circle
Life Is A
Think
Everywhere
See
Follows
Had
Messi
Get
Cannot
Swear
Away
Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
Daniel Barber
Work
Myself
People
Genius
Problem
Believe
Collaboration
Background
Solver
Never
Been
Than
Afraid
Being
Means
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Good
Fool
Genius
Bad
Write
Takes
Learned
Real
His
Off
Hands
Any
Keep
Ad
I am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.
Darlene Love
Thankful
Genius
Recognition
Voice
Main
Talent
Sound
Am
His
Wall
Spector
Phil
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