Shaping Quotes

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This is a good moment to comment on the cottage industry that has sprung up around "How To" ... Screenwriting manuals. I think of this because Towne`s script (Chinatown) is often cited as a great template (which it is) but, invariably, with no understanding or acknowledgment of the role film editing has in shaping a finished work. So any discussion that omits this issue shows a palpable lack of experience in the actual making of films on the part of the scriptwriting teacher/author.

- Steven Soderbergh

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

- Bruce Springsteen

Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country.

- Dougray Scott

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

- Thom Yorke

We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.

- Brandi Chastain

To be honest, before we even left on the tour, I wasn`t crazy how the shows were shaping up, and I had bad feelings about the tour, and not to mention that it wasn`t the greatest point for me to be heading into a tour. I had a lot of stuff going on. A lot of the same issues that we`ve talked about here. I was drinking a lot, and the whole nine yards. I headed into the tour, and the shows were just crappy. That`s all there is to it. There`s no other way to put it. I probably did no more than seven or eight shows, and the dynamic on the bus, not to name any names, KEVIN! (Laughs) I like Kevin ( DuBrow , QUIET RIOT frontman). A lot of people bag on Kevin , but I can deal with Kevin , he`s just ah... Kevin is Kevin . Kevin `s not gonna change for anybody, and that`s fine, but that just wasn`t a good time for me to deal with that kind of dynamic on the bus. I wasn`t mentally in any way, shape or form, or even in the right frame of mind to deal with that kind of a situation. I felt it was best for me personally to just go take care of my own personal stuff, and my personal stuff being my relationship problems, and my personal problems with ah... well, that was the first time that I looked into getting treatment help.

- Jani Lane

Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.

- Robert Wise

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it`s not right.

- Bob Mould

Oh, my God - I am really shaping the destiny of these characters. There`s Patrick as Jean-Luc Picard, and he`s now going to do a scene that I wrote. So that for me was the biggest sort of fan/professional synthesis.

- John Logan

This is shaping up to be a pretty good season,

- Steve Clark

We are appreciative of the effort Greg has put into his position and the contributions he has made towards shaping the team into one of MLS` most competitive on-field teams, as well as his contributions towards the building of our new home -- Pizza Hut Park,

- John Wagner

(He`d better be, because the new space race already is under way and competition is shaping up as fierce. Rutan`s chief rival may ultimately be Elon Musk. A former Internet mogul who in 2002 sold his online payment company, PayPal, to eBay for $1.5 billion in stock, Musk now runs SpaceX in El Segundo, Calif., which is developing an orbital space vehicle. Musk notes that making it into orbit requires going eight times faster and producing 65 times more rocket energy than a suborbital vehicle like SpaceShipOne. Musk has already put more than $50 million into SpaceX and says he is prepared to invest $50 million more. He expects it to take at least five years to get passengers into orbit. In the meantime, SpaceX is generating revenue by booking orders to launch satellites; its first such launch is scheduled for January.) Our earned revenue will be $35 million after a little more than two years of operation, ... By comparison, the X-Prize was a one-off of $10 million, and it took Burt something like five years to do it.

- Elon Musk

There`s a lot of worry. We have seen some improvement over the winter, but soil moisture is nowhere near where it ought to be. Things are not shaping up for a good year at all.

- Gary Clark

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

- Barney Frank

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

- Thomas Lynch

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

- Adair Lara

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

- Al Hutchinson

No matter where you stand politically - even if you`re unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

- Alain Corre

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one`s religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

- Alan Sandals

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

- Alexandre Coimbra

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

- Alfie Cox

As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.

- Allie Savarino

Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.

- Alma Denny

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

- Andre Castro

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

- Andrea Vinyard

We`re not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.

- Andreas Theisen

These will be a great help in shaping the budget measures provide real insights into the hopes and concerns of Canadians from all provinces and territories.

- Anthony Williams

This merger is all about shaping our future.

- Arman Sidhu

Most of the time, all you are doing is trimming them up and shaping them up.

- Arthur Meyers

For decades (Americans) haven`t had to worry about other parties in Asia shaping the environment in ways that might be unfavorable to us. But now we are called upon to state what values the US feels are nonnegotiable in the East Asian community, and we haven`t.

- Barbara Buckley

What we hear and what we learn will help the shaping of this report,

- Barbara Rosser

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

- Walt Disney