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Quotes About Smaller

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.
~ Joel Edgerton
the greater a man's power swells, the smaller his good quantities shrivel
~ Joe Abercrombie
we all have a choice now between two profound forces-- fragmentation, or flow. Fragmentation makes you smaller, shallower, angrier. Flow makes you bigger, deeper, calmer. Fragmentation shrinks us. Flow expands us.
~ Johann Hari
I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.
~ Dominic Monaghan
I enjoy my solo career because I get to play smaller places like clubs and theaters, and the interaction with the audience is much higher quality. It also sounds better than a baseball stadium. Everybody has a good seat, and I don't have to play a specific part like I do in the Eagles.
~ Joe Walsh
I love the smaller scenes. I love the smaller, slightly more theatrical scenes.
~ Martin Freeman
Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Life became much more difficult with the Intifada, and my wife and I began to regret that we hadn't rented in the Israeli half. The rent's a little high, but we would have managed with a smaller home.
~ Sayed Kashua
Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.
~ John Bolton
I love hotels. I generally prefer smaller boutique hotels to large chains, especially when attention and wit has been given to interesting design elements and beautiful bathrooms.
~ Joanna Going
With a smaller setting, you have a lot more freedom and flexibility within a given moment, but not necessarily the velocity you have with a big band.
~ Kurt Elling
If you have smaller eyes, you should choose a thinner brow that isn't very dark in color. This will open the eyes.
~ Anastasia Soare
Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.
~ Tony Abbott
In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.
~ Walter Kohn
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.
~ James Surowiecki
Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.
~ Taron Egerton
The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you've got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries of a big budget film.
~ Joel Edgerton
The more she saw of the galaxy the more she'd come to understand that sometimes the commission of a smaller sin was the unavoidable price of extirpating a much greater one.
~ Sandy Mitchell
Man was, therefore, still a prisoner on his own planet. It was much fairer, but a much smaller, planet than it had been a century before. When the Overlords abolished war and hunger and disease, they had also abolished adventure.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
So, similarly, there's another exchange (auction) that sells smaller, cheaper companies. It's called the Over The Counter Market (OTC). It's more like the lower priced rocking chair / furniture auction. I'm not knocking the companies that are sold there. They are just much smaller companies, many of which are just getting started. Some of these startup companies can offer incredible profit opportunities if you have good research and pick the right one.
~ John Roberts
the Johnson County commissioners, who "talked very feelingly," he said. "They resent the many slurs cast upon their county by the cattle barons who are trying to drive the smaller stockmen off the range."10
~ John W. Davis
Her shadow crossed the dunes, smaller now. Ahead lay the south desert, limitless. Soon she turned slowly, with the sun swinging across the port wing-tip, and headed west as they had planned.
~ Elleston Trevor
Then she said, "Your plays balance on air I mean they are air I mean they are performed in air so they are air. "If a whole city could balance on a seed then a city could balance on a play because a play is air and everything is air. "Your next play should be about a seed because a seed is smaller than an almond. Or maybe your next play should be smaller than an almond, about nothing, about air.
~ Sarah Ruhl