I must have written 15 lyrics for ‘The Lion King,’ and only five or six were used. Some were scenes that disappeared, some were earlier versions of songs that didn’t work, or else the characters changed.
From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.
I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. America clings to versions of itself that are absolutely hypocritical. I can’t shake my outrage at it, so I write about it.
Mickey Mouse did not stay the little squeaky guy in ‘Steamboat Willie.’ He went on to have many different versions.
I avoid watching other people’s versions of films or plays that I work on.
Building robot versions of people is very expensive.
I started posting initially because I just wanted to get my voice heard. I sang cover versions of show tunes and got such nice feedback that I began singing songs I had written.
I don’t have a huge amount of gear, but on the software side, I have a number of plug-in chains that act as abstracted versions of real instruments.
Even though I believe a superlative translation can achieve timelessness, that doesn’t mean I think other translators shouldn’t attempt other versions. The more the better, in the end.
I was really worried about the Windows RT project and these other efforts where Microsoft was creating versions of Windows that would be locked down and could force you to only install software through the Microsoft store.
I think a handful of the roles that I’ve gotten to play are characters whom I’ve lived that are like younger versions of me but who are maybe more naive and a little bit wilder than when I was. And I’ve gotten to play 16 and 17 when I was a little bit older, so I got to pull from experience.
We came up with this idea of a power struggle between two people who really love each other, and ‘Doll & Em’ took off. Calling it by our own names was the director’s idea, but hopefully people will understand that we’re playing versions of ourselves.
You always try different versions of yourself through songwriting. It can get a bit annoying to see them walk around and do their thing when you feel like, ‘I’m not that person any more.’
I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else’s name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.
At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it’s terrible and doesn’t make sense, and we just keep working on it.
I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.
I’m completely obsessed with the film versions of ‘Superman’.
In my opinion, I feel like all versions of ‘Deathstroke’ are valid. Just like with ‘Black Panther,’ I felt like it wasn’t good for a writer to say another writer’s work was invalid or never happened.
I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we’re all doing slightly different versions of the same thing.
My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that – so I’ve tried to make an album of Robert Johnson covers that, well, while not totally faithful for blues purists, is faithful for people like me that grew up with the ’60s and the electric blues-rock versions of Johnson’s songs.
I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That’s when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. ‘You’re in theater but you can play football?’
Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
I went to the Sorbonne in Paris for two years and read all the classics by authors like Victor Hugo and Guy de Maupassant. I was supposed to read them in French but I cheated and used the English versions instead.
I definitely have been very mindful of what kind of leader and creator I want to be. A lot of that has to with looking at the writers that you work with. They’re all like your children. They all need love, but different versions of it.
When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
I’ve watched what happens when a game like ‘DragonVale’ gets to number one on iOS. Suddenly there’s ten other versions of it that hit the store. As a gamer, that bothers me. I don’t like those companies.
When I write a script, I have all the old versions of the script on my laptop. They’re saved as backups in case something goes horribly wrong.
I’ve been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping with my mom. I remember getting the digest versions of old DC comics. The one that I remember reading first was Paul Levitz’ ‘Justice Society of America’ stuff that he was doing in the ’70s.
If there is enough space on radio for Busted and McFly, who are basically the same band, or for 50,000 versions of Stereophonics and Coldplay, there must be enough room for all of us.
Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.
Just like mutations to DNA in biological organisms allow for evolution through natural selection, forking lets us run multiple experiments in parallel where the strongest versions survive.
One thing Aussie telly does well is slightly different versions of programmes we’ve made. The trailers for ‘Celebrity Splash’ prove they don’t just pick the good stuff either.
I’m less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker.
I just feel that I don’t agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that’s sensationalized.
Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company’s credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the necessary changes, and repeatedly introduced new versions of the software.
While eating gluten-free may help you lose weight initially because it eliminates baked goods, one has to be smart when choosing replacement options because the gluten-free versions often have the same number of calories.
What we are as a live band is different to what we are on recordings, but they’re both equal versions: they’re both LCD Soundsystem, but in very different ways.
There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn’t make any sense.
I’m a big fan of ‘The Office’, both the British and the American versions.
One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn’t; translations seem to be of their time.
Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone’s enemies – sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.
As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions – special, powerful – of ourselves, they remain stuck in a narcissistic version of themselves, too.
There’s nothing wrong with me, and I’m not going to apologize for the amount of time that I spent in two countries and I’m not going to apologize for the fact that I speak two languages and I’m not going to apologize for the fact that I have two versions of my name.
I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.
You make sure that there’s a structure that’s interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I’ve found what works. So I’m not wasting their time.
When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn’t surprise me at all to see people come with different versions of ‘American Idol’ and a lot of them are exactly the same but with different twists.
Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney?
All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.
‘Mistresses’ is about the lives of four women, each going through different versions of infidelity. Their longtime friendship is what gets them through extremely challenging times.
I like to think of my books and the movies of my books living in two separate universes. Each is very nice, but only one is correct – the book. But that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the other versions, and I always do.
It’s important for people to know what they want, to know who they are, to follow their dreams and be the best versions of themselves.
