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Quotes About Spontaneity

I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy... It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got.
~ Jonathan Winters
There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.
~ Dan Castellaneta
Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.
~ Ralph Bakshi
I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.
~ Rose Tremain
Choreography is writing on your feet.
~ Bob Fosse
Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
~ Gregory Maguire
To grow a melody? You can't grow a melody on purpose," she said, and slyly added, "you have to plant an accidental.
~ Gregory Maguire
Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.
~ H.L. Mencken
If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.
~ H.L. Mencken
Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They'll sit on anyone's knee.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Ja minä voin viedä tuon naisen - hän tarkoitti vaimoaan - ulos johonkin kauniiseen paikkaan.' 'Mihin kauniiseen paikkaan sinä viet sen, oopperaanko? Siellä pyörii kuulemma hyvä produktio Rigolettosta.' 'Eläintarhaan, jumalauta! Minne ikinä haluaa!' Anwar heittäytyi sentimentaaliseksi, kuten tunteettomat ihmiset usein.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Krivcu mozes da radis sta ti padne na pamet.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Totalitaire overheersing is gericht op de vernietiging van de vrijheid, meer nog, op de eliminatie van de spontaniteit in het algemeen, en geenszins op de beperking, hoe tiranniek ook van de vrijheid. Technisch gesproken blijkt de afwezigheid van enig gezag of hiërarchie in het totalitaire systeem uit het feit dat er tussen de hoogste macht (de Führer) en de onderdanen geen tussenliggende niveaus zijn die elk hun aangepaste deel hebben in het gezag en de gehoorzaamheid.
~ Hannah Arendt
How's the couch work for you?" she said. "I don't care if we do it on a bed of nails at half court at Madison Square Garden." They
~ Harlan Coben
In order to be totally spontaneous, you can't be too obsessed with accuracy, but if you're inaccurate in a drawing, it will look fake, and when you act, it will sound fake. You have to find miraculously some proper balance between the two, but there's no formula.
~ Peter Falk
Creativity is all around us, and some of the funniest, most beautiful, and touching moments happen when you least expect it.
~ Bryce Dallas Howard
I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
~ T. J. Miller
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
I'm going to go out on tour when I feel like going on tour.
~ Chrisette Michele
We wrote and recorded the 'Bond' song on a tour bus in Texas.
~ Finneas
In the past, we never really had that kind of spontaneity on record. When you start touring, you play songs in a certain way and then I start to feel like it's tough to really get lost in my playing.
~ Adam Granduciel
When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.
~ Richard Branson
I like arriving somewhere and taking a left when someone tells you to go right. When all the tourist signs are pointing one way, it's exciting to go the other.
~ Lennie James
We know there's no use in getting miserable, so we go out on the town instead!
~ Lee Ryan