Awful Quotes - Page 29

• If you're dealing with a character that actually exists, there's an awful lot of information there. So, you can put together, from the information, motivations, insecurities, reactions. Where does that seed get born, if you like?... What I do is put that together.

  Michael Fassbender

  Motivation, Character, Insecurity

  "Michael Fassbender Talks SHAME, A DANGEROUS METHOD and the X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Sequel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 21, 2011.

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• I tried playing electric for awhile and it just didn't work out. My reflexes are centered on the six string acoustic. I just played the electric too hard and it sounded awful, so I gave it up.

  Tom Rush

  Work Out, Acoustics, Six

  "Tom Rush Interview: Celebrating 50 Years of Storytelling and Music". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockhereandnow.com. November 26, 2012.

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• I love anything that gets me outside of my own head. I love music because it's really just - I tried to play piano as a kid. I was awful. It didn't help, and this is absolutely true, that my piano teacher had arthritis. And that's not a good way to learn.

  Lewis Black

  Teacher, Kids, Play

  "Lewis Black on the things he'll always love". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2010.

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• I felt a combination of happiness and humility [ to People Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People ]. At the same time there's a lot of pressure, because people can approach you whose intentions aren't in the best place, and they can say things that are very hurtful. And on one of those days when you wake up and you just go and get your coffee without worrying about looking your best, you make yourself vulnerable to someone who'd say something like, "You look awful for being on the Top 100 list."

  Zoe Saldana

  Beautiful, Coffee, Humility

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• I always see something for sure one time and then I make myself see it a second time. Because second time is like, 'OK, I'm not that bad. I'm not that horrible.' But the first time I just think I'm god-awful.

  Eva Mendes

  Thinking, Firsts, First Time

  "Nicholas Cage and Eva Mendes Interviewed - 'Ghost Rider'". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 12, 2007.

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• I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. I think I admire art criticism, criticism of painting and sculpture, far more than I do that of say films and books, literary or film criticism. But I don't much like the practice. I think there are an awful lot of bad people in it.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Book, Thinking

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• Your image as a model is your currency. That's the only thing you've got. No one cares what you look like in real life. Nobody is going to say the make up guy was terrible. They will say, you look awful and let's not book her again.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Real, Book, Guy

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• I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether it be a Lawrence Krauss thinking that physics is rendering philosophy obsolete or a Sam Harris thinking that neuroscience is rendering moral philosophy obsolete - that it takes an awful lot of philosophy - philosophy of science in the first case, moral philosophy in the second - even to demonstrate the relevance of these empirical sciences.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Philosophy, Thinking, Answers

  "Interview with Rebecca Goldstein on Plato at the Googleplex, philosophy for the public, and everything". Interview with Ophelia Benson, www.butterfliesandwheels.org. March 20, 2014.

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• I am very optimistic because I have seen the changes in my lifetime. I have seen the world change for the better. We always think that present times is terrible, that what's happening today, it was never worse, that the world is going in the most awful direction. But I think that the world that my grandchildren will have will be better than the one I had when I turned 20.

  Isabel Allende

  Optimistic, Grandchildren, Thinking

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• I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly sustained periods of peace that profit great masses of people - and I think war has worked, even awful hellish wars: worked to staunch fascist aggression in Europe, worked to preserve the Union after secession in the United States, etc. Not always, maybe not often, but to say never is to reject history in favor of a wishful unreality.

  Philip Gourevitch

  War, Thinking, Europe

  "Ask the Author Live: Philip Gourevitch on Osama Bin Laden". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. May 4, 2011.

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• People come up to me in supermarkets and demand humour. And the less amusing I am, the more they piss themselves. So I say, "I'm doing my shopping, mate, OK?" and the guy will be on the floor in hysterics. Quite odd. Eventually I do have to say something funny so I usually go for something pathetic like, "It's a nice place to shop but I wouldn't like to live here!" and they roar again. Wet themselves. I'm lucky though that I am not massively famous, I can get the Tube without much bother. Must be awful being the Beckhams.

  Steve Coogan

  Nice, Shopping, People

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• I was a big fan of Gary Moore, he was my buddy and I miss him a lot. I loved his playing because you've got that passion; it was sort of a Celtic thing. The Irish and Scots they just go for it and not too worried about looking good. When I was in the states touring, I landed in Seattle to do a gig and one of the fans came to me and told me about Gary's death. It was very hard for me to carry on, it was awful.

  Jack Bruce

  Passion, Missing, Fans

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• People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  People, Attention, Doing Nothing

  "Guess Who Loves Cheap Chic? Sarah Jessica Parker". Interview with Bob Morris, www.glamour.com. June 30, 2008.

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• I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Memories, Trying, Remember Something

  Interview with Ryan Bartelmay, believermag.com. May 15, 2018.

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• I’ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period. I don’t blame some people for thinking that though, from the garbage they heard on those leaked tapes, which have been edited. You have to put it all in the proper context of being in an irrationally, heated discussion at the height of a breakdown, trying to get out of a really unhealthy relationship. It’s one terribly, awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day and doesn’t represent what I truly believe or how I’ve treated people my entire life.

  Mel Gibson

  Believe, Thinking, Race

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I had peanut butter once. It was awful.

  Grumpy Cat

  Peanut Butter, Peanuts

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• I've always been someone who's extremely relaxed in my everyday life. I'm not the girl who can wear awful seven-inch heels all night. I keep it simple - I consider myself to be a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl who just accessorizes a lot.

  Nicole Richie

  Girl, Simple, Night

  Source: community.qvc.com

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• I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• Ever since that night I've been on the road Travelling and trying to forget That awful night I lost all my friends I see their faces yet.

  Phil Coulter

  Sad, Night, Trying

  Song: Donegal Danny

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• Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Beautiful, Fighting, Past

  "'Evil Can also Be Beautiful'". Interview with Matthias Matussek and Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.

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• You sit and you read that, and you have to imagine turning it into a film that people are going to sit and watch. And you have an awful lot of input from a lot of other people. That's the way I work.

  Wolfgang Petersen

  People, Watches, Input

  Source: www.aintitcool.com

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• I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe I should try prose. It was a real struggle to begin because, first of all, there were so many words on the page - it was terrifying... Beginning was awful.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Real, Struggle, Writing

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• I think there's an awful lot of ball players with great skills, but whether or not they're going to be on winning teams is not going to be answered until you see how they fit in to a team or a program. If they don't, it may be their fault or it may be their coaches.

  Tex Winter

  Team, Winning, Player

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• There are many different types of people that end up coming to me and saying 'Yeah I want to cook.' Some of them successful, some not. There's no one formula, but if I get someone coming through the backdoor who knows that they want to get into the cooking field, they feel this inside-out love for it, this attraction to it, that person is an awful lot easier to work with.

  Paul Rankin

  Successful, People, Cooking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• If you've done your preparation and you know the team of people that you're working with, then it makes life an awful lot easier. I still get nervous all the time. I think the best thing to do is to take a deep breath, make it simple, know what you're talking about, don't try and be fancy, don't try and be clever and just enjoy the experience.

  Jill Douglas

  Clever, Team, Simple

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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