More than an actor, I am a performer… I’m a great believer – honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so – that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there’s the postal service.
I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the ’80s, where there wasn’t texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I’m not well suited to the world of modern technology.
I feel like all four of us are really powerful in our messages, what we speak about, and what we are about.
You shouldn’t listen to my music for political messages.
The universe is always speaking to us… sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
I’ve gotten so many messages I could even get emotional thinking about it, but I’ve gotten so many messages from young kids all over the country that my story’s resonated with them.
I start ‘The Code Book’ with the story of Mary Queen of Scots and the Babington Plot, which was foiled when Mary’s enciphered messages fell into the hands of Elizabeth I’s codebreakers.
You can’t be preachy – kids are allergic to messages.
Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.
When it was announced that I was going to be on ‘Castle,’ there were immediate messages on all the TV news sites from ‘Firefly’ fans hoping for a nod to the series – some encrypted business just for them! I can’t promise that, but I can say that a few people out there might get a thrill.
I get messages from Palestinians and from Iranians… everyone is, like, the same.
Do your best to spread positive messages.
It’s sad that people will invade someone’s privacy – and this is not only regarding someone’s private photos – but this goes deep into people’s financial privacy, their passwords, their emails, their text messages.
Streamers are a great way to get my stories out and share my messages with more people.
Now we’re e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.
It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I’ll have 141 messages from people who will be offended if I don’t write back.
I get so many lovely messages and so many people tag me in their own crafting and upcycling and I love it.
It’s a very strange thing to suddenly be approached in the street and have streams of messages, and not know how to work through getting bad reviews and hate comments. It’s something that can really weigh on the mind and be quite isolating.
I gravitate towards strong messages and things that make an impact.
I love to play around and have fun with my lyrics, but sometimes the messages are raw, and I also like to get emotional with them.
I get messages from people telling me all the time through Twitter or Instagram about how my path has inspired their path. It’s good for them, for people who have a certain amount of mental problems, suffering from depression or anxiety, being able to have someone who recognises them and helps them.
The highest grossing films have great, moral messages – not dirty, base themes, so we’re trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.
One of my ongoing messages is the importance of families not being polarized. It’s important to talk about routines and bring everything into the middle and not to one extreme or another.
The increasingly progressive messages in marketing campaigns are clearly a mercenary attempt to entice millennials: they are trying to be ‘woke.’
Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it’s hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.
Messages hidden in the thickets of a story are the ones that burrow deepest because most of us don’t realize that any burrowing is going on at all.
You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, ‘Hey, I’m a screenwriter – look at this.’ You can’t sit around, wondering why people aren’t calling and asking about my writing.
We send messages all the time, free of charge. There’s a big shell out there now, 80 light-years around us. A civilization only a little more advanced than we are can pick those things up.
I was a Science student and it is often believed that all those who study Science are only good in academics, so many students sent me messages saying how I have become an inspiration for them.
I love that theatre can be political. You can go watch a play; it sends out messages, and you can go away thinking differently to the way you thought about it before.
If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn’t say I’m a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I’d like to think that I’m part folk singer.
It wasn’t until my teenage years that a book really left a mark, and that was George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four.’ It was on the syllabus at school when I was about 16, and I went on to read more of his books. It was the height of the Cold War, so a lot of the messages really resonated at the time.
I get loads of messages from people telling me they’ve been helped through some bad relationship when they’ve listened to my song. That’s what I want to do.
Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture.
The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.
Codes and signals are as important as explicit messages, and the two are linked. The bore pressing someone to tell them ‘where they’re really from’ will see themselves as different to the aggressive stranger barking at someone to ‘get back to their own country,’ but the subconscious, if not explicit, message is the same.
Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will ever see… Will we rob them of their destiny? Will we rob them of their dreams? No – we will not do that.
And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
As soon as you start feeling like you can’t trust the person and you need to check his phone or have his Facebook password or look through his messages – as soon as that trust barrier is broken – it’s hard to keep a relationship going after that.
I’ve had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don’t send any messages in doing so.
I’m always trying to respond to my Instagram direct messages, even if they’re a little weird. I’ll have a Q&A on Snapchat and talk to everyone.
Japan had the big earthquake in 2011, and the Olympics will be a good opportunity to bring strength to the people of the Tohoku region – and also to show everyone around the world that Japan is doing fine again. These are messages we have to convey through the power of sport.
You can get eight thousand great, amazing messages, and someone will send you one thing that you’re maybe self-conscious about, and that’s the only thing in your head for the rest of the day.
For me, I spend an hour sitting down, sending off e-mails and text messages to everyone in my contacts list – guys I played with, guys I work with, friends, relatives, and neighbors. I just fire off something quick that says I love you, I’m thinking about you, and if you need anything, you call me.
Microtargeting, as its name implies, is a way to identify small but crucial groups of voters who might be won over to a given side, and which messages would do the trick.
My parents separated when I was nine, but my father was always around, and he still follows me now. He is always sending me messages.
Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.
Naming me ‘Twinkle’ was a foolproof way of making sure that I would get teased throughout my life, have immigration officers at various airports stare at my passport and shake with hysterical laughter, and strangers stalk me with WhatsApp messages like, ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, little star, I hope you get hit by a car!’
I am always getting messages that I am paid by America, that I work for America, that I am connected with CIA… blah blah blah. I am not working for America, I am working for my country’s good, but America is not an enemy for me.
We believe that we can use interactivity to create meaningful games. Games with emotions and virtual actors telling you something. Resonating with you as a human being, giving you food for thought. We don’t need to deliver messages or whatever, just need to create a moment in time that will leave an imprint in your mind.
I’ve had some messages from some famous people which have been so unreal that they know who I am. I had support from Paloma Faith, Luke Evans, Stevie van Zandt, Jojo Siwa and Sharon Stone. It was amazing that so many big names had been talking about me.
