Awful Quotes - Page 33

• Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf, but all those awful white bands.

  Tom Verlaine

  Hate, Mean, White

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• So yes, I'm trying to think about the connections between politics and poetry. There's an awful lot you could say here.Poetics is a form of poesis, a form of production-construction, but there might be ways of conceiving of that in a much more interesting manner. That's what I'm thinking about at the moment.

  Simon Critchley

  Thinking, Interesting, Trying

  "Demand Everything! An Interview With Philosopher Simon Critchley". Interview with Anders Gullestad, www.truth-out.org. May 15, 2010.

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• I remember when TiVO first came out I was all about TiVo. I came home and that thing was frozen, and I thought 'This is awful. This is the end of the world'. Then I unplugged it, and I plugged it back in, and still frozen. It was paralyzing. I called them. They said, 'Just unplug it longer.' Fixed. But it also taught me I'm an addict.

  Nathan Fillion

  Home, Firsts, Taught

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• Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Sports, Trying, Faces

  "Katie Couric Interviews Tavi Gevinson, The Style Rookie". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. February 6, 2011.

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• Nearly every taping or audition has to be in an American accent, so you don't have a choice; you just have to get good at it. I'm sure you can appreciate accents - it's like learning any skill, you have to work at it and work at it and it takes an awful lot of time, until it's muscle memory and you don't have to think about it anymore.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Memories, Thinking, Skills

  "Jeremy Irvine’s Fan Club". Interview with Michael Douglas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 17, 2015.

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• Corsets do look so pretty. Once I watched it, I was like, "Well, they do look nicer than the way I do normally," but they're really uncomfortable. You start to realize why women would pass out. We had the real ones, and they were just awful. At one point, I was like, "I think that's my spleen that this is digging into." So, if I had a nightgown, that was always really comfy. I had a few coats that I thought were pretty cool.

  Kristen Connolly

  Real, Thinking, Digging

  Source: collider.com

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• How far would you go to protect your family? I'm a father, I'm a son, I'm a grandson, and I'm a husband. If someone were to hurt the women in my life and the law didn't take care of it, what would I do? Pretty awful things.

  Jason Momoa

  Hurt, Husband, Father

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes somebody has an amazing house party and you meet great people and you dance - I've had incredible experiences. But they have been so much fewer than the awful experiences where you're just standing around like, "Why did I come here? We're all just putting on a show for each other and I might as well be in a museum."

  Desiree Akhavan

  Party, Museums, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Choosing work is an interesting thing. It's a balance between what's available and what you've always got in the back of your mind - that awful, strange thing that seems to have to exist in this industry, of what will give you "exposure."

  Guy Pearce

  Giving, Interesting, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Life is like a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Very popular and not as bad as some would have you believe. That is, unspeakably awful but mercifully brief.

  Simon Munnery

  Believe, Musical, Life Is Like

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• An awful lot of actors who are considered very good actors are not very good actors. There are people who just strike gold, they have intrinsic talent, but the point is that if they did train, it would not inhibit them. If they were with a good teacher, it would only broaden them more.

  Martin Landau

  People, Gold, Actors

  "Q&A: Martin Landau". Interview with Peter Debruge, variety.com. April 24, 2007.

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• The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelop of the storm, and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion.

  Herman Melville

  Profound, Storm, Rifles

  Herman Melville (2017). “HERMAN MELVILLE – Premium Collection: 24 Novels & Novellas; With 140+ Poems & Essays: Adventure Classics, Sea Tales & Philosophical Novels, Including Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man…”, p.1796, e-artnow

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• I am very aware of the fact that it's highly unlikely anyone will write an article via their mobile phone. I've done it, but it's painful. And it's not just about the small keyboard and the small screen - though that's awful. It's the emotional experience of writing an article.

  Sue Gardner

  Writing, Emotional, Phones

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• Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Disappointment, Genuine

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• I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Dream, Loneliness, Fall

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Distance, Men, Law

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• Every day is amazing, even when it's awful, because everything is for a reason. I know that this horrible thing that's happening today is going to bring something so amazing.

  Sandra Bullock

  Today, Reason, Horrible

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• I was awful at science at school, as a subject, because I didn't have the discipline. But, I was awful at music, as well, and I loved music.

  Dallas Campbell

  School, Discipline, Wells

  Source: collider.com

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• The two-war strategy was a product of the cold war, when we had to have the ability to fight the Russians on the plains of Europe and fight the Chinese on the Korean peninsula at the same time. That costs an awful lot of money.

  Joe Klein

  War, Fighting, Europe

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2013.

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• It's awful to have a depression, but it's a great thing to have a depression mentality because it means that we are not speculating, we are not living beyond our means, we don't quit our job to take a big risk because we know we might not get another job. There is something stable about a country, a society built on those values.

  Seth Klarman

  Country, Jobs, Mean

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• I think there's an awful lot of twaddle and bullshit on EVA. The whole game is to turn retained earnings into more earnings. EVA has ideas about cost of capital that make no sense. Of course, if a company generates high returns on capital and can maintain this over time, it will do well. But the mental system as a whole does not work.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Games, Ideas

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• I've played an awful lot of people that other people would call villains, but that isn't a very helpful attitude to have if you're about to play them. They are just people, and they may do dreadful things and say dreadful things, but your job as an actor is to know why they do them or say them.

  Ian Mckellen

  Jobs, Attitude, Play

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• An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.

  Clint Eastwood

  Long, Good Movie, Mind

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• Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking.

  Brian Eno

  Quality, Sound, Cinema

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• There are two ways to respond to the trials and tribulations of our present and past . . . 'Ain't it awful?' . . . or . . . 'Good information!' Our choice of responses will determine our experience of life.

  Bill Crawford

  Past, Two, Choices

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