Quotes About Interpretation

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.

But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other.

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.

What I do is creative. It doesn't seem like that when I'm playing a piece that was written in the past, but the score is just the outline and everything in it is relative. The key is to make this piece written by someone else belong to you and then connect to the audience.

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

Computer vision and machine learning have really started to take off, but for most people, the whole idea of what is a computer seeing when it's looking at an image is relatively obscure.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

That's what's interesting: When you release an album, everyone hears it their own way.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that once we make a thing and release it, my turn to talk is done. Ideally, you're saying everything you want to say in the product you're making, and you don't have to add commentary to it afterwards.

My Hindi remakes are better than my originals except sometimes, the Malayalam actors perform better.

Art is made in hindsight.

I like to know how I'm supposed to feel about things. Just a little clue or hint.

I may be able to concentrate on a move, but it may not look exactly how I need it to look like, as far as in the ballroom world. Hip-hop is different; it is a lot more flowy with ballroom.

What you find with really good directors is that they kind of leave you alone. They've hired you because they know the kind of work you do and the sense of how you'd approach it. So usually, they'll just stand back and maybe give you a nudge once in a while in terms of something specific they might want in a particular scene.

Every actor believes in his way of performing.

It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.

Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

The best writers attempt to become alternative historians.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.