quotes about Mediums
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Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.
-- Amy CuddySource : "Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are" by Amy Cuddy, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2013.
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It’s true: Medium has the best web-based editor I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen them all.
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I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ...
-- Aphra BehnSource : Aphra Behn (1871). “The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn: With Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes...”, p.125
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I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.
-- Ben Shahn -
Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
-- Bill BrandtSource : "Do writers' photographs show a side of their character not revealed in their books?" by William Dalrymple, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2016.
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Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
-- Bobby Seale -
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Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.
-- Brian BaumgartnerSource : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 12, 2010.
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Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.
-- Chad Harbach -
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.
-- Charles James -
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Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.
-- Chris Rock -
I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.
-- Christine BaranskiSource : Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.
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I have always been so interested in film as a medium.
-- Christoph Waltz -
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The internet is an amazing medium for languages,
-- David Crystal -
My medium is prose, not the novel.
-- David ShieldsSource : David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.23, Vintage
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I think ***** is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.
-- Dennis Cooper -
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I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.
-- Denzel Washington -
There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.
-- Dmitri Mendeleev -
There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.
-- Doug Larson -
Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.
-- Edward Blishen -
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Television is such a mediocre medium.
-- Elizabeth Montgomery -
I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium.
-- Ellen Forney -
Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs -
Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
-- Fay Godwin -
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Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Radio is called a medium because it is rare that anything is well done.
-- Fred Allen -
I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.
-- Gene Kelly -
Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.
-- Gerhard Richter -
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They call television a medium because nothing's well done.
-- Goodman Ace -
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
-- Horace -
Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.
-- Ian MckellenSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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Television, for me, is a medium that I'm probably always going to be attached to, one way or another.
-- Idris Elba -
I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
-- J. J. Abrams -
Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.
-- James Surowiecki -
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I have had really positive experiences in every medium, as well as horrible experiences in every medium.
-- Jimmi SimpsonSource : "Jimmi Simpson Tackles Sorkin's Farnsworth". Interview with James Sims, www.broadwayworld.com. January 25, 2007.
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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
-- John Lasseter -
For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.
-- John Lithgow -
I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.
-- Josh Marshall -
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Memory is the medium of the must-have-been.
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Encaustic gives markmaking a dimension... additive/subtractive.
-- Kay WalkingStick -
The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.
-- Kurt SchwittersSource : Gwendolen Webster, Kurt Schwitters (1997). “Kurt Merz Schwitters: A Biographical Study”
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If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.
-- Laura Marling -
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The industry is s**t, it's the medium that's great.
-- Lauren Bacall -
I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.
-- Lena Dunham -
Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.
-- Leopold Stokowski -
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In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
-- Loretta Young -
I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
-- Mackenzie CrookSource : "Goodbye cruel Slough" by Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2004.
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What works in one medium does not necessarily always work in the other.
-- Marc E. PlattSource : Source: collider.com
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I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?
-- Marguerite Moreau -
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I see myself working, making a living and doing projects that I'm passionate about, regardless of the medium.
-- Matt Bomer -
The body is our general medium for having a world.
-- Maurice Merleau-PontySource : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.169, Psychology Press
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A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
-- Michael Arndt -
While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses,
-- Nick Denton -
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How your customers learn about your product is part of your product. The medium is the message.
-- Patrick Vlaskovits -
The medium is not the message - the message is the message.
-- Penn Jillette -
I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them.
-- Peter Cushing -
Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.
-- Peter GreenawaySource : "Being Naked - Playing Dead: The Art of Peter Greenaway". Book by Alan Woods, 1996.
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Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.
-- Philip Zimbardo -
The subject comes first, the medium second.
-- Richard Prince -
Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.
-- Robert MotherwellSource : Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”
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A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.
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In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
-- Seamus Heaney -
Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.
-- Sergio Aragones -
I love eggs fried over medium.
-- Slick RickSource : "From the Vaults: Slick Rick, circa 98-99". Interview with Adisa Banjoko, allhiphop.com. March 1, 2005.
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Movies are an editor's medium.
-- Stephen RootSource : Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.
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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
-- Susan Griffin -
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Film is a truly magical medium.
-- Tom SaviniSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It is a sign of a medium's immaturity when one of the main topics of discussion is the medium itself.
-- Tom Standage -
Word of mouth is the best medium of all.
-- William Bernbach -
Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking.
-- Alex BlumbergSource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.
-- Alex GibneySource : Source: collider.com
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You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].
-- Chath Piersath -
I love performing in any medium, and more the opportunities you have to vary things, the more you learn.
-- Cynthia Addai-RobinsonSource : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
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I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.
-- Domenico GnoliSource : Source: observer.com
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If your business isn’t optimised for mobile, it might as well be invisible. Mobile isn’t going to be a medium. It’s going to be the medium.
-- Edward Boches -
Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation.... photographing has become the visual equivalent of cellphone chatter.
-- Geoffrey Batchen -
My only deliberate attempt has been to act, to do good work. Thereafter, the medium has been choosing me.
-- Indraneel BhattacharyaSource : Source: www.ibtimes.co.in
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I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.
-- Jeff BrittingSource : Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com
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I don't believe in synergy. I believe that things have to be specific to the medium that they're in.
-- Jonathan Meades -
The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.
-- Joseph O'NeillSource : "The week in books" by Giles Foden, John Dugdale, Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2009.
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Whatever the medium, if you have great taste and not very much skill, you can still make something great.
-- Kemp MuhlSource : Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk
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The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.
-- Michael Snow -
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I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds.
-- Peter Menzel -
It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.
-- Rose McIver -
There are just so many ways to talk about masculinity, it feels like one medium can't do it alone.
-- T Cooper -
In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.
-- Thomas Ruff -
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I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing things that are farther away.
-- Whit Stillman -
Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.
-- Zach Anner -
I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?'
-- Bruce Joel Rubin -
The internet is the most underutilized advertising medium that's out there.
-- Mary Meeker -