Quotes About Awareness

Everyone knows it's dangerous to ingest gasoline or to inhale its fumes. But I am starting to believe that merely thinking about the price of gasoline can damage cognitive processing.

We obviously want to produce things that people want. We are going to continue to do that in an environmentally responsible way, while still being aware of the physical, scientific, and practical issues that we have to deal with.

You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.

When I grew up in Italy in the 1950s, it was still very agricultural. Food was very important; produce was very important. Everyone made their own olive oil. It took me a long time after I moved here to understand that Americans are much further away from their food.

I've always had a strong interest in how food is produced and in knowing where it comes from.

I think that if everyone knew how meat and dairy was being produced, they wouldn't eat it.

You can't be in a bubble being a producer. You have to keep up on what's happening at all times.

When I was young, people didn't even really know what a producer was.

I love auditioning because I also get the confidence that I can play the character and the producer is aware of what I can do.

My husband himself is a producer, so we know the practical difficulties of producers.

People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford to ignore the impacts their buying practices have on producers and on the perceptions and choices of consumers.

I don't feel that I was often compartmentalized as an African-American actor, yet I am fully aware of the plight that actors, directors and producers of color face in our industry. I choose to focus on being proactive in creating opportunities for myself and others while acknowledging that we are not playing on a level playing field.

I'm interested in colour-blind hiring of directors, producers, and writers. Go to the source. Then we won't need to have conversations about colour-blind casting.

It's so difficult to be conscious of a development of a style. You find yourself writing in a certain style, and the analysis of how you came to it can only ever be applied retroactively. You're never conscious of why you're producing it.

The most dangerous thing for a branded product is low interest.

If you have a great product but no one knows about it, it's history.

I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

Denzel had made it apparent that he wanted me to bring my own interpretation of 'Cory'. I was definitely aware of Courtney B. Vance's performance in the original production, as well as that of Chris Chalk, who performed the role onstage with my cast back in 2010.

It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.

I was very aware that my path into the industry would probably be as an actress and not in production, that I could learn a lot that way. And I did.

Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

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