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  • What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything down and find the kind of essence, the skeleton if you like, which can then be fleshed out by performance and cinematography.

    "Salman Rushdie brings 'Midnight's Children' to big screen". Interview with Matt Carey, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2013.
  • So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.

    Interview, blogs.denverpost.com. January 31, 2010.
  • Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

    George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”
  • Only recently I’ve learned, it’s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize

  • If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression that mathematics consists in proving the most obvious things in the least obvious way.

    George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”
  • Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

  • When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

    Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.35, Prabhat Prakashan
  • When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

    Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”
  • I had a life experience that most of my - that none of my friends had. I remember I became everybody's rabbi. Everybody who needed advice would talk to me, and it became an obvious thing.

    Source: www.npr.org
  • From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.

    "Atonement". Book by Ian Mcewan, www.sfgate.com. 2001.
  • Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

  • [Albert Camus] also says that nothing is true which forces exclusion. From that, you're obliged to accept contradictions if you don't want to reject certain obvious things about life, certain evidences. If you create a system, and you say 'here there is truth', in that kind of pathway [chemin], then you'll evacuate all the other pathways and you'll kill life. It's up to each individual.

    Source: www.spikemagazine.com
  • Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

  • But I think Cybil was my biggest fan. She cut out my articles and hung them in her locker and we were always cracking up how if you wrote the simplest, most obvious thing in the world people thought you were a genius.

    Blake Nelson (2008). “Girl”, p.223, Simon and Schuster
  • Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

    Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.461, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated.

    "Comedian Dylan Moran: 'What am I looking forward to? Incontinence and memory loss'". Interview with Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2009.
  • If a movie makes it really big, they do the obvious thing, right? They make an amusement park ride out of it. ... The connection is obvious. You get off, "Man, that was just like the movie! Only the movie had a storyline and characters, and that was a little more like a roller coaster."

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  • Paris is a beautiful city to walk around in. And, you know, all the obvious things: I like the museums, I like the theater, I like the dance. And it's manageable. The food's good. I know a lot of interesting people here. I lived in Boston for 50 years or more. Wherever I am, I'm usually holed up most of the time in the editing room, and so, when I leave the editing room, even if I just take a walk, it's gorgeous. And I walk everywhere. I'm a victim of the seduction of Paris.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This is the ancient alchemical formula: "as above, so below, as within, so without."

    Source: www.edgemagazine.net
  • There's often more than one correct thing. There's often more than one right thing. There's often more than one obvious thing.

  • Be nice to each other. Not a lot, but seems like the most obvious thing.

    "Actor Lenny Jacobson: On getting in the zone, vulnerability, and preferring chaos". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on ... And if we are ignorant of the most obvious things about us, and the most considerable within our selves, 'tis then no wonder that we know not the constitution and powers of the creatures, to whom we are such strangers.

  • The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

  • It's more like there are some really obvious things that are different and then lots and lots of smaller things, lots of things about who lives and who dies, civilizations that rose and fell, all the way down to individual characters. That becomes the state of where you left your galaxy. The endings have a lot more sophistication and variety in them.

  • The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.

  • I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • We need men who can dream of things that never were.

    Address Before the Irish Parliament, delivered 28 June 1963, Dublin, Ireland
  • I guess it's kind of the obvious thing for me to do 'cuz it's what I grew up listening to. The songs growing up and everything kind of seem like old music to them, but to me, it's just... good music. And of course I did grow up in England in the 21st Century and that does come into it as well.

    Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
  • Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well.

  • I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.

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