Black Swan Quotes
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Blood is the leitmotif of ‘Black Swan.’ (Black Swan Quotes)
Black Swans and tail events run the socioeconomic world (Black Swan Quotes)
A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan (Black Swan Quotes)
People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls ‘Black Swans’ - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too (Black Swan Quotes)
Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take ‘Swan Lake,’ the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they’re turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes (Black Swan Quotes)
Slashing its way to the finish line, Black Swan is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror (Black Swan Quotes)
The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare. (Black Swan Quotes)
Don’t Look Back’ is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It’s been described as ‘Black Swan’ meets ‘Pretty Little Liars’. (Black Swan Quotes)
So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls black swan events - rare events happen more often than they should because the world is more correlated. (Black Swan Quotes)
The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called ‘The Black Swan’ with Tyrone Power. And I thought that was great stuff. Of course, in those days, Technicolor was really Technicolor; there was no such thing as desaturation. Everybody looked super suntanned. (Black Swan Quotes)
Black Swan’ does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting everything important wrong. Darren Aronofsky, the director, applies the same techniques and the same sensibility here as he did with ‘The Wrestler,’ only with a prettier protagonist. (Black Swan Quotes)
Black Swan’ was absolutely unbelievable. I had always dreamed of working with Darren Aronofsky, and Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel. The entire cast was really a dream cast, and it was amazing to work with these powerhouse women that I’ve just admired for so many years. (Black Swan Quotes)
I’m particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works. (Black Swan Quotes)
A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan (Black Swan Quotes)
No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion (Black Swan Quotes)
In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term (Black Swan Quotes)