When you look at other good-bad movies like ‘Sharknado’ and ‘Birdemic,’ those movies know that they’re B movies, know that they’re silly and over the top, as opposed to ‘The Room,’ where Tommy Wiseau, the guy at the centre of it all, he attempted to make a very earnest drama.
My passion is creating and marketing. That’s what I’m really, really good at, and that’s what I find the most stimulating for my brain to work on, so that’s what I really, really want to do as opposed to product creation.
The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what’s going on with the self, that’s the general thing people are talking about.
The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
We need people who truly live their faith, represent their faith, speaking to the issues of faith through a faith prism as opposed to just having folks talking about faith when there is a crisis.
If you’re opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you’re for a tax increase.
It’s hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first. It’s hard to get players to give in to the group and become selfless as opposed to selfish.
I’ve been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.
I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I’ve always ridden horses, but Western is like riding a horse in a rocking chair, as opposed to English, where you have to balance and hold on with your legs.
If there’s anything I’m keen to get better at in my writing, then it’s the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.
I’m not afraid of taking long walks. A lot of people want to be great, but they want to cheat to get to the greatness. I’m cool with talking the walk around the block to get to where I want to go as opposed to the cheat, because the cheat has flaws.
Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author – and I don’t give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.
As filmmakers, we can show where a person’s mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses… An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation.
I’m not opposed to putting myself in danger for meaningless comedy.
I didn’t really have an act per se – a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you’re all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.
We’re losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
One of the things that’s always amazed me about people who attack me, saying I’m opposed to renewable energy, is I’m pretty sure I’m the only Republican who had an energy bill vetoed by a Republican governor.
We should not be a party that is opposed to science.
I obviously pursued a career in the arts but always wondered if I had just been supported a little more in math, as opposed to it being ‘a thing I had to learn,’ how that would have changed things for me.
It is so hard nowadays to find a movie that I like. I don’t mind blood and gore. But I mind when its a slasher film, and its some guy looking for women. I am opposed to that kind of thing. Blood and gore? I love that kind of thing.
What I think is important about essayists – about the essay, as opposed to a lot of personal writing that kind of finds its way into public view – is that the material really has to be presented in a processed way.
To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its inner logic, is one of the fundamental dangers in the process.
Lucifer has a sense of fun about life; he just likes to play with people. But the sense of humor of the show is what makes the show entertaining as opposed to dark.
Dee Dee very much filled in the bottom of our sound as opposed to supplying the rhythm.
When you’re actually talented, and you have something to offer, people start to look at you for you as opposed to who you’re the offspring of. I feel like a lot of actors, artists, or musicians who come from famous fathers or mothers all deal with the same thing.
After ‘The Fellowship of the Ring,’ the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be ‘Lord of the Rings’ as opposed to learning from ‘Lord of the Rings.’
Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.
People refer to me as part of the MCU, as opposed to just being this actor. Honestly, it’s an honor.
The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it’s possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.
As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world – and they’re coming – it’s better to – be inside the tent and figure out what they’re doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, ‘You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I’m going to stick to my horse and carriage,’ you know.
With wrestling, we’re still athletes. I train like we’re an athlete as opposed to a body builder. Some people still have that body-builder mentality. But not from me. I do a lot of agility work and stuff like that.
As opposed to thinking about ourselves as disrupting the fashion industry, we’re thinking about ourselves more broadly – about disrupting the closet and how you get dressed.
It’s different as a guest as opposed to being a star of a series. A guest star is a whole different responsibility. It’s much different than being a regular. You come in, and it’s a lot of unfamiliar faces, and you want to try to fit in as best you can, but also you want to stay there without making waves.
AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don’t think that’s healthy.
I wasn’t, you know, Mr. Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.
When you have a major movie star, and then they’re surrounded by local extras, it takes me out or makes me more conscious of what’s going on, as opposed to losing myself in the movie.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Even in ‘Hollyoaks,’ we were known as ‘the black family’ as opposed to just ‘the new family.’ But that’s where we are in the world, I guess. It’s getting better; everything’s heading in the right direction, whether it be race, sex, gender.
Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.
I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.
I do think there’s a difference when you see a book where you can tell the creator’s doing something they really love or are really passionate about as opposed to an artist or a writer who is just doing a particular job or trying to sell a product or trying to cash in on a popular trend.
Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
I’m always looking at things and seeing how I can improve upon them. I think it’s my responsibility to focus on how I can do better, as opposed to what I’ve done well.
By heralding President Xi Jinping’s accession to permanent leadership, soliciting Vladimir Putin’s reentry into the Group of Seven, and declaring that Kim Jong Un is ‘beloved by his people,’ Trump legitimizes the very behavior that U.S. presidents opposed for decades.
I like playing a guy who wears pants as opposed to shorts.
The virtual is opposed not to the real but to the actual. The virtual is fully real in so far as it is virtual.
We’re not trying to be a mega-pop-band, but we also wouldn’t be opposed to selling millions of records, either.
‘Black film,’ that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, ‘We’ve made our black film. We’ve made our film with people of color in it,’ as opposed to, ‘I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.’
