 “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race” Calvin Coolidge In Life, people tend to wait for things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; It falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get it. This isn't because the Universe is cruel. It's because the Universe is smart. It has it's own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall in our lap. From THE GAME by Neil Strauss If you grow up in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. But this moment is directly connected to those imaginings. And for anybody who's on the downside of advantage, and relying purely on courage, it's possible. Russell Crowe [on winning the Best Actor Oscar] Art is why i get up in the morning, but my definition ends there, it doesn't seem fair. I am living for something i can't even define. Ani DiFranco I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas Jefferson Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking, so that others won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us: it's in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
There is vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep directly open to and aware of the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
And what is marvelous to us, what fills us with wonder and admiration, we must emulate, or we die...We must cross deserts alone and often perish along the way, we must move to where we can start our lives over, and when we get there we must keep knocking at the gate, shouting and pounding with our fist until those who happen to keepers of the gate are also moved to admiration and open the gate. Conan O’Brien 's commencement speech to the Harvard University graduating class of 2000 was, of course, hysterical, but it was also uplifting and encouraging. I share this with you in the hopes that you might find it as inspirational as I did. If not you might at least get a good laugh.
Is Making a film an art or a craft? The artist often doesnt know what he is creating until it's finished. The craftsmen, on the other hand, usually does know - otherwise he wouldn't begin to work. The artist is thus the more daring of the two because he has to plunge into ambiguity, uncertainty, and darkness. It is, in fact, the quality of daring that distinguishes all artists, whatever their medium. This does not mean the artist need not be a skilled craftsman - most of them are - it means that art goes beyond craft.
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Here are two websites that have free downloadable Sound Effects for film editing, theatre, etc. You get what you pay for, so you have to dig a lot through this free stuff to find good FX, but there are definitely some gems in there. http://www.grsites.com/ http://www.findsounds.com/
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