Levels Quotes - Page 52

On a personal level, just for me in my own work, I would say the most interesting thing has been getting to work with the people that I've worked with.

I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.

In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.

Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.

Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.

Anybody can put sexual content to music, but I feel like I took it to a next level where it's a mood or feel.

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation.

I'm usually the first guy to propose a change because I'm continuing my process. We're in a context, in this business, a context in which most screenplays work on a very modest level of achievement, in that a lot of them aren't really written by what you would call writers.

I'd rather have that dialogue right now than only the other one, which is starting at such a basic level, that we start rearranging stuff on the Titanic, trying to be less bad with ordinary stuff.

When you go to a studio with something you want to make, or they come to you with something they want to make, more often than not, it's a tent pole. Not something one single person is really passionate about on a creative level.

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

I've never been in the position where that conversation is a serious conversation before the movie even comes out. On one side of it, that's so great because you've got such great potential. The other side of that is that there's a level of pressure. Now, that clearly means that there's an expectation level, from the studio side, potentially from the audience's side, and from our side.

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.

In quantum physics, the study of material at the subatomic level, you get down to the tiniest levels. When they take these subatomic particles, put them in particle accelerators and collide them, quantum physicists discover there's nothing there. There's no one home - no ghost in the machine.

This is the first time in history that we've had this level of luxury, so we have a new opportunity to rethink the way we approach God.

A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.

The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.

Therefore today we have an absolutely sufficient level of gold and foreign currency reserves in order to ensure economic stability and sustainable foreign trade turnover.

If everything stops functioning our level will be able to ensure our trade turnover using its gold and foreign currency reserves for at least six months or more, which is more than enough.