Bother Quotes - Page 25

• ... shouldn't everything you do matter if you're bothering at all? Not to hold on when it's over, that's the trick.

  Evelyn Keyes

  Matter, Tricks, Ifs

  Evelyn Keyes (1978). “Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister: My Lively Life in and Out of Hollywood”, Fawcett Books

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• When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Years, Ego, Age

  Tess Gerritsen (2012). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 9-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl”, p.1858, Ballantine Books

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• When industry people see something different they don't know what to do with it, so filmmakers who make films about women, they kind of fall through the cracks. If a woman filmmaker makes film about war, like [Kathryn] Bigelow, they say "Okay, this is a war film, it has ninety percent men in it, we know what to do with it." But then she still gets attacked for not doing it properly. [...] But even though it bothers me I don't want to dwell on the sex and gender thing.

  Signe Baumane

  Sex, War, Fall

  "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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• I don't hide from cameras or anything. It doesn't bother me. I don't seek our press for the women I'm dating, but if it finds me, it finds me.

  Tom Cruise

  Dating, Cameras, Find Me

  "Hot Shot in Top Gun". Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.theuncool.com. May, 1986.

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• Mistakes don't scare me or bother me. If I feel like I made the same mistake twice, then I feel like I've really screwed up. But if I make one mistake and learn from it, hey, to me in the game of life it's just as important to know what doesn't work as what does. So I think mistakes are a good thing.

  Garth Brooks

  Mistake, Thinking, Games

  "Locked and Loaded". Interview with Kevin Freiberg, www.freibergs.com.

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• I do think, where would kids be if it weren't for you and for the good pediatricians, and for the good parents? I passionately believe in sitting a child on your lap and tracing the lines of the book with your finger, and they can read before they know they can, if you bother enough. I did it with my kids, and they're doing it with their kids now.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Believe, Book

  "Interview: Julie Andrews Reflects on Writing, Reading, Libraries, and Film". Interview with Leonard Kniffel, americanlibrariesmagazine.org.

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• The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch when it comes to the popular mind because we've had no aristocracy. It is a democratic country. And we know without knowing it, without bothering to understand it, how to reach ordinary people, sometimes with the most vulgar, worthless junk on the face of the earth, but we know how to do it [laughter].

  Arthur Miller

  Country, Art, Laughter

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• I find that things don't bother me as much. If I had a bad day on set, it sort of just rolls of my back in a way that it didn't before. So that's where the biggest difference is, stuff that used to get under my skin or that I would worry about or be anxious about just isn't a problem. So in some ways, having a child has been very liberating. I found it very liberating.

  Laura Linney

  Children, Bad Day, Differences

  "MR. HOLMES: Laura Linney Talks Sherlock, and Compares Working on TMNT 2 with CONGO". Interview with Brian Formo, collider.com. July 14, 2015.

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• you may take it from me, that however hard you try - or don't try; whatever you do - or don't do; for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; every way and every day: the parent is always wrong. So it is no good bothering about it. When the little pests grow up they will certainly tell you exactly what you did wrong in their case. But never mind; they will be just as wrong themselves in their turn.

  Gwen Raverat

  Growing Up, Parent, Mind

  Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.52, Clear Press Ltd

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• If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text without bothering to delve into its implications -- which in time will make them prey to propaganda and to assertions based on scanty evidence, or none.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Reading, Mean

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• Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.

  Joan Robinson

  Should Have, Growth, Needs

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.9, Academic Press

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• I'm told some people no longer bother to have friends at all - can't fit them in.

  Joan Frank

  Friends, People, Fit

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• I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me.

  Jack Cafferty

  Complaining, Answers, Knows

  "It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America". Book by Jack Cafferty, 2008.

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• I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on it, I think it was rather to my credit. The notion of actually putting writers' words into other words is quite ridiculous because why bother if writers mean what they mean, and if they don't, why read them? There is, I suppose, a case for studying literary works in depth, but I don't quite know what 'in depth' means unless you read a paragraph over and over again.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Education, Mean, Thinking

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• It really bothers me when a guy is controlling. Dont just say Im picking the place - ask me where I want to go!

  Cassie Scerbo

  Guy, Want, Ask Me

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• Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so its probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

  Zak Orth

  School, People, Mind

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• Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me.

  Shirley Manson

  Political, Desire, Together

  "Garbage's Shirley Manson on getting the band back together and kissing major labels goodbye". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Don't bother asking God for answers about life. Most likely you're asking the wrong questions.

  Josh Kilmer-Purcell

  Asking, Answers, Asking God

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• Why bother with Google when I have a wife who knows everything about everything!

  Akshay Kumar

  Wife, Google, Knows

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• If you'd bothered to ask me, Clark, if you'd bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours, I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn't bother to ask me. You decided what you thought you'd like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.

  Jojo Moyes

  Horse, Fun, Hate

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• If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

  Ali MacGraw

  Years, Clothes, Actors

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• You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?

  Douglas Coupland

  Morning, Mean, Growth

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• The extraordinary language of Nonviolent Communication is changing how parents relate to children, teachers to students, and how we all related to each other and even to ourselves. It is precise, disciplined, and enormously compassionate. Most important, once we study NVC we can't ignore the potential for transformation that lies in any difficult relationship - if we only bother to communicate with skill and empathy.

  Bernie Glassman

  Teacher, Children, Lying

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• As you focus your attention on the heart center, you will begin to feel your thoughts slowing down. You'll begin to feel your mind becoming calm and quiet. They won't bother you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

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• Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly remade herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.

  Liz Phair

  Girl, Cat, Doors

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