- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beforehand Quotes
On planning, preparation, and easing nerves in advance.
These beforehand quotes cover honest warnings nobody gives about adulthood, and the careful planning creatives do before a Family event or scene.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Favorite Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Typically, I have a fairly good grip on the plot of a suspense novel before I set about writing it. I must know beforehand how the mystery ultimately will be solved.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to spend a week with Lenny Kravitz while we were filming his arc, which was very exciting. This guy is so cool and amazing that beforehand I felt so uncool and nervous.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.
- Film Festival
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote 'Wuthering Heights,' I told my boyfriend beforehand 'I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.' Actually once I was there, it was fine.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot choose beforehand what you want to use for a suit. You may want to change your mind a dozen times before you are through.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always carry a little jar of nuts around with me. I roast them beforehand with tamari and thyme to give them a deliciously rich flavour.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020