I didn’t know if I could have a career in fashion; I didn’t fit in an obvious box.
Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.
It is obvious, our country has failed to provide two basic things which are the two main drivers of immigration, which are the lack of economic opportunity and a lack of security.
I like to be subtle, without being too obvious.
People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.
As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.
There will be occasions when someone has suffered a crime where it is either obvious that they are not looking for an investigation or that there are no investigative opportunities and you just have to be up front about that.
When we talk about music, we tend to place our experiences into one of two categories: making the music and listening to it. Delineating the two seems practical and obvious. In reality, though, there are a lot of opportunities for overlap, and it doesn’t matter how you get into the music as long as you connect with it.
What is obvious is that Donald Trump is comfortable with an approach to running his presidency based on what worked for him in the private sector.
Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.
July is high burglary season because so many people leave town. To help avoid making that obvious, suspend your newspaper subscription and have your mail held. Another clear indication is if all your lights are off for an extended period. To fix that, you can buy a timer for about $30.
My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it’s obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn’t always happen when you’re doing theater or movies.
I did a play once where a reviewer said, ‘Martin Freeman’s too nice to play a bad guy.’ And I thought: ‘Well, bad guys aren’t always bad guys, you know?’ When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it’s false.
No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
Stupidity really gets me going, when it’s just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.
The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He’s not the obvious choice for anything, but he always brings something special to it.
One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.
The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.
I’ve been going to the same barber the last few years, and we have great chats whenever I’m in the chair. He’ll ask: ‘How you doing? How’s the training going?’ Just ordinary, obvious things, but then, like you do with your barber, you start talking about personal stuff.
It’s obvious the Green Industrial Revolution will challenge orthodox political and economic thinking. That requires bravery from both politicians and electorates.
I went to my local Sure Start centre, and they put me on a parenting course. I learned things that might seem simple – that it was important to hug and love your child, and read to them. This might seem obvious, but it wasn’t to me at the time.
You need an actor who can maintain a character over a long period of time. If you have a weak actor, it won’t be obvious in two hours, but you’ll begin to see his weaknesses over four or five days.
The most obvious thing you can’t do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren’t always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board. I’ve come up with some wonderful ideas that they universally dismissed as ‘lame.’
‘Obvious Child,’ the short, had a nice life online and a great festival run, but the short and the feature still stand apart from everything else I’ve done. I play a woman who you might meet in life. My other work is much more heightened.
One of the most obvious reasons to start using timber rather than concrete is that it’s the one commonly grown and therefore exceptionally renewable building material that we have available to us. And it acts as storage for carbon dioxide.
If we weren’t born with anti-social passions – narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious – why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
It’s like our relationship is always about the other side that isn’t the obvious side.
With obvious irony, many of the left-leaning privacy advocates who might cheer Apple’s stand against the government’s intrusion into its system, are now, as transparency advocates, on the side of the leakers of the Panama Papers.
In the black-and-white world of a girl in her late teens, I thought of things like Internet etiquette as obvious, rule-bound institutions. Facebook was Facebook, texts were texts, emails were emails, chats were chats, webcamming was webcamming, phone calls were phone calls.
For professional athletes, the motives for cheating generally are more obvious: money, fame, and often a low likelihood of being caught. But why would a middle- or back-of-the-pack runner lie or cheat in a race that doesn’t even matter?
To state that lethal force should not be used without a proper legal justification is to state the obvious.
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
We’re having such a great time on ‘Nashville’ that building on the relationship seemed an obvious next step. Lionsgate is the perfect home for the kind of scripted television I want to produce and direct.
A new poll shows that Senator Kerry’s support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry’s appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away.
Engineers are now experimenting with 4,096-line TV systems, suggesting that with the next generation of sets you’ll be able to count the grass blades on the Superbowl field, an obvious lifestyle improvement.
It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
From the very beginning, I think it’s been quite clear that there’s no way I could possibly say that trans women are not women. It’s the sort of thing to me that’s obvious, so I start from that obvious premise.
One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.
I feel strange when I get applauded by people in power… because it’s obvious that it’s them I’m criticizing, but they can’t show that in front of the cameras. It’s quite funny sometimes.
It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.
‘Barton Fink’ owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.
The idea that there aren’t mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.
Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.
I think Mitch McConnell and, to a degree, Paul Ryan – they do not want Donald Trump’s populist, economic nationalist agenda to be implemented. It’s very obvious.
What seems obvious to one person wouldn’t occur to another. Your perspective is hard coded into the work that you create.
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully – love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
The most obvious things are often right there, but you don’t think about them because you’ve narrowed your vision.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
