Quotes About Selection

Casting directors are like these fairy godmother witches.

I fell asleep during the draft, actually. I woke up, and I was picked No. 48. I didn't even know what number I was picked.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

I fell in love with filmmaking. I fell in love with criticism. I fell in love with theory, and it made me really dogmatic in my approach to choosing roles.

Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.

I just got an ear for the kind of things I like.

Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Every game you play, you want to go in and give everything you have got, prove a point and make sure you are in the manager's thoughts for the next camp. If you aren't playing, it is difficult.

More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.

You must take into account the actual distinction between truth and fact. It is beyond all human power to tell all the facts. Your whole lifetime spent at nothing else would not tell all the facts of one morning in your life, just any ordinary morning when you get up, dress, get breakfast and wash the dishes. Facts are infinite in number. The truth is a meaning underlying them; you tell the truth by selecting the facts to illustrate it.

I went to the bar against the third wall and ordered a beer. "Bass ale, Black Horse, Carta Blanca, or Guinness stout? We don't serve domestic beer after six o'clock." I

I've taken an option on it, but I haven't bought it yet

Open this book to a random page. With a pencil, mark any word or phrase that you think does not contribute to the meaning of a passage or chapter. 2. Pick another page. As an exercise, imagine that you have been assigned to cut 10 percent. Mark the candidates for deletion.