Quotes About Selection

I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.

The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

The problem with when you look at eBay is that you can put a pair of Jordans next to a frying pan. It's an altogether different experience compared to having some editorial around it and well-curated experience.

The problem with the Moodies is not what to play, it's what to leave out! That's always difficult. We stopped having support acts many years ago just because of that. We needed getting on to two hours; there's such a big catalog to call on.

I get offered stuff that I don't really want to do, so hopefully, I'm just kind of waiting for the right thing.

My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.

We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.

You really know how to pick 'em, don't you?" Toby joked. "I think I'm cursed.

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

Having recognized that a choice needs to be made, you can now turn to the full range of possibilities you should consider. These might be versions of the options already identified.

what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147)

There is no meaningful "yes" unless the individual could also have said "no.

A society has many pasts from which it chooses those that go into the creation of its history. The choice is made by those in authority—the authority being of various kinds—although occasionally the voice of others may be heard.

It should be obvious why it's easier to copy someone else's painting, rather than work on site or even from a photograph. All the selection, rejection and design have already been done for you.

natural selection," not only changes in individual species

If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.

Let's draw straws," said David. We used dune grass. We didn't pull it out—Jack warned us not to hurt the plants—but snipped it neatly with a penknife. The shortest blades went to Terry and Rafe

For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian??ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.

Sometimes the best way of killing a person is to let him choose his own fate.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

The pieces I chose were based on one thing only — a gasp of delight. Isn't that the only way to curate a life?

mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

it is not possible to staff a large company without short people. There simply aren't enough tall people to go around.