Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes – it just happens.
I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith… But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.
I can’t think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
When I was 5 years old, I moved with my mother and brother from Philadelphia to a small town in Florida. People talked more slowly there and said words I had never heard before, like ‘ain’t’ and ‘y’all’ and ‘ma’am.’ Everybody knew everybody else. Even if they didn’t, they acted like they did.
I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.
It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.
As people grow up and they want more freedom, it’s on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you’ve got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move.
I try to work in the mornings. Usually, I write in my pajamas and slowly assemble myself. I don’t get organized and sit down and get dressed. I do the laundry. I drift in and out of writing.
Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess.
I know some things when I start. I know, let’s say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it’s going to be about a piano, but that’s it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.
Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.
We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening – in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.
My sense of cinema improved slowly as I started watching South cinema, got to know that cinema is much appreciated here.
For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, ‘Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I’ve earned slightly more wealth.’ I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars.
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
If you throw a frog in boiling water, he’ll just hop out. But if you put him in warm water and slowly amp up the temperature, he won’t notice and end up boiled.
Temple House is starting with clothes, but slowly I plan to extend it to accessories and events.
There’s something so great when you’re watching a movie when you slowly get to know somebody more, because it’s like a real relationship.
Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.
I’ve never had a ground-breaking hit that changed the deal. It’s always been slowly but surely for me, and I’ve never had a moment of sheer panic when I thought I was never going to work again. So I can’t really complain.
As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children’s library until I finished the children’s library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.
I used to compose a lot of music for video games, before I got into movies, and I am slowly getting back to it.
People weren’t willing to bet on ‘The Commercial Guy’ when they were casting movies and television in the beginning, but I stuck around, and now it’s slowly starting to pay off.
The European Union has become a prison of peoples. Each of the 28 countries that constitute it has slowly lost its democratic prerogatives to commissions and councils with no popular mandate. Every nation in the union has had to apply laws it did not want for itself.
I was just trickling releases out slowly and building the Deadmau5 brand slowly. There was never this big marketing machine behind it or anything like that.
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.
Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.
If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time you’re ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, you’ve got a full menu.
Goalkeeping in women’s football is catching up slowly. It is continuing to modernise, improving technically and physically.
Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.
I called the album ‘The Chemo’ because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.
Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.
I was the kid who would join a sports team and be the biggest liability at first and a star player by the time the game got going. I just move very slowly.
Every industry has standards. For example, the motion picture camera, there are 2 or 3 film formats with a number of brackets and number of speed, a shooting speed that is standard. If we didn’t have that, then some motion pictures will play back too slowly, and people would talk very slowly, and it will be bizarre.
I’m a really new artist here. I would say that my style is an artist who can dance and sing. That’s why my album is really upbeat. Maybe we will try slowly to do ballads or middle tempo songs.
One of my earliest memories was of seeing horse-drawn buggies with little Amish children peering out at me from the back, their legs dangling as they jabbered in Pennsylvania Dutch, sometimes pointing and giggling at my family following slowly behind them in our car.
I loved the title of ‘Blue in Green’ – as if the color blue was seeping into green, slowly changing it and creating a new color.
The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues – they’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
I want to do some coaching, maybe a couple of days a week, and start building up slowly – find out my philosophy, how I like to play and things like that. I want to be a coach now and eventually I want to be a manager.
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
I move very slowly. It’s usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don’t read any more than I have to.
And whenever I do step away from the Internet or the music too long, it’s like I have to slowly get back into myself to get back into the groove.
I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.
I’m learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can’t afford to be all the time, but I’m getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.
I’m not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John’s. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.
More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us – where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.
