Quotes About Repetition

I don't like rehearsing.

When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.

We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.

It's natural for players to be relaxed, so you have to be there to say, 'You have to do it again and again and again.'

Historically, there's been a degree of sameness to animated films.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

The Heartbreakers got kind of stuck with these hits and we had to play them like the records, which is a great balance too and we were really good at that.

I feel, if keep hitting the same shot, I get better at it.

I'm confident when I perform but going into a horrible, boring studio and playing the same thing over and over again is really different to being on stage!

After I broke my leg I had to go back and do one of the remakes of 'The Magnificent Seven' and ended up on a horse that pitched me off and broke my leg again... I rode horses pretty well. I just didn't like doing it.

I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.

Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.

It doesn't matter how many times the audience has heard it before. If it's funny, it's funny.

You get lucky and you capture that magic in that one moment. You're not going to get it again no matter how many times you do the song over and over and over.

That's the beauty of filmmaking: it's extremely humbling because you do it all over again all the time.

There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life.

Por doquier la máscara, el disfraz, lo vestido, la verdad de lo desnudo. El verdadero sujeto de la repetición es la máscara. Porque la repetición difiere por naturaleza de la representación, lo repetido no puede ser representado, sino que debe ser siempre significado, enmascarado por lo que significa, enmascarando, a su vez, lo que significa.

Perhaps the highest object of art is to bring into play simultaneously all these repetitions, with their differences in kind and rhythm, their respective displacements and disguises, their divergences and decentrings; to embed them in one another and to envelop one or the other in illusions the 'effect' of which varies in each case.

La tâche de la vie est de faire coexister toutes les répétitions dans un espace où se distribue la différence.

They were women not strong enough or smart enough to leave. Women without imagination. So they stayed in Wind Gap and played their teenage lives on an endless loop.