What’s becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.
It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him.
It also was never a secret how loved Paul was, but seeing and hearing the way that everyone talked about him, from producers to crew, made it so obvious how much Paul was loved by every person we came across.
People are lazy when they cast. It’s natural to think of the most obvious fit to your character.
When it came to choice of subjects, science was obvious – since I was uninterested in anything else – but a decision that caused consternation in some eyes was my demand to take biology for A-level.
Two things – one is obvious: always keep making. The second thing, with regard to music videos specifically – the music video industry can be a place that takes advantage of young freelancers and filmmakers. Make sure you’re making stuff that you’re proud of and you can get behind.
I’m no scientist, but I’ll dare extrapolate and say that it’s pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you are!
Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.
Great businesses can be built on scale. I think Amazon has built a phenomenal commerce business largely on scale. Their network effect isn’t obvious to me, but boy, have they used scale effectively.
The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.
A startup is a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed.
I really want women to appreciate their power. It was obvious to me that lots of people are comfortable with power, and they see what it can do, but women’s expression of it was never as comprehensive as it could be. It seemed like an amazing gift that Oxygen could give.
I wasn’t predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn’t an obvious choice to me.
I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be – not to have a ‘career’, but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.
What’s obvious is that the U.S. has a very imperfect system, and yet its leaders are obsessed with lecturing the rest of the world on how to organise their affairs.
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn’t happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.
The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you’re lucky enough to know or to meet the character that you’re playing, I’d say, ‘It’s obvious: you quiz them diligently about their experience.’
Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain.
It was obvious after the ’97 election that as long as there were two small-c conservative parties trying to destroy each other, the Liberals would win every election.
If a translation doesn’t have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to the style of a translator, stop noticing it, and get caught up in the story.
My last meal on Earth? The obvious answer is a plate of my mother’s scrambled eggs.
In art, the obvious is a sin.
I have a cat that I’m obsessed with. His name is Rooster and he’s an orange Bengal. He is one of America’s great cats. We found Rooster at a rescue organization, and within minutes it was obvious – that’s our cat.
It is obvious to voters that Brexit has caused both of our principal parties to take leave of their traditional and historic purposes and principles, if not also their senses.
When you’re a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.
Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads ‘arteries’ and so forth.
The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.
I’ve experienced some really very obvious, direct homophobia – when I was still trying to be an artist, behind the scenes, being told to be less gay, be less feminine.
I grew up in the West End, so my whole background was living among theatres and musicals and the West End’s coffee bars and clubs. It’s kind of obvious that one day I should do something like that.
If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it’s about experience, it’s about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn’t that obvious?
I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.
I found that the things I am afraid of most are things for which there are no obvious remedies. Like, what do you do with a fear of death? You either come to terms with it or you don’t, but there’s no solving it.
My obvious happiness and open, sharing nature made me vulnerable to people with ulterior motives.
When I got there, there were two sides: business and football. Business I understand. It was pretty obvious to me what we had to do. But the football side was like the Holy Grail.
I think I’m drawn to female characters partly because they don’t have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and so they suffer under social constraints or have to maneuver within them in ways men sometimes don’t or are unconscious about, or have certain liberties that are invisible to them.
I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me.
If you state the obvious long enough, other people will pick up on what you’re talking about and examine it. And usually they’ll swallow it.
It was never like I had to go, ‘I am gay.’ Slowly, almost by osmosis, by the way I was behaving, it became obvious and accepted.
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man’s wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
I’ve titled this book ‘Eighty Is Not Enough’ not just for the obvious play on words, but as a way of expressing the single idea that has governed my entire life, that every moment of life is precious, that every step we take is an adventure, that every day on earth is a gift from God.
The idea that you don’t spam people with five emails a day or that you offer free shipping just seemed obvious to us, because that’s how we want to be treated as consumers.
Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn’t obvious… at least to me.
Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It’s great just to have someone to call to say ‘I know, man, I was there’
One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that’s just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps.
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
The English are good at bad guys – the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
I’ve always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.
I’m someone who thinks that the world would be a better place if there was a big middle class. I mean, middle class is peace. In a perfect world, everybody would have enough to eat and we’d be living in security. It’s obvious. I’m very happy to pay my taxes and all that. I would say I’m more of a Social Democrat.
I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little.
