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  • I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world.
  • The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
  • I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.
  • I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
  • An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
  • It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.
  • Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.
  • I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975) Pattern Integrity 505.201
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Thomas Mann An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Carlos Slim At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • Carter Burwell Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Barbara Kruger Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Dudley Nichols I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywood. Even when he knew nothing about his work, he brought at least knowledge of life and a more grown-up mind, a maturer feeling about the human being.
    Dudley Nichols
     
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  • David Ogilvy I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Annie Leibovitz 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
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • T. S. Eliot It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Ansel Adams It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Buffalo Bill It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bipasha Basu It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Bob Edwards It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Austan Goolsbee It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Alec Baldwin Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Edward Blishen Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.
    Edward Blishen
    English author and broadcaster (1920 - 1996)
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