Boundaries Quotes - Page 39

• Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience....In the end, I'm not a fan of labels. I think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them.

  Kristin Hannah

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.

  Robert Jensen

  Grief, People, Political

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• I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.

  Susie Orbach

  Struggle, Writing, Trying

  Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.

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• I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

  Matt Damon

  The End Of The Day, Directors, Want

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

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• I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Genre, Complementary

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• I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can take your character as far as you want to, you can be the craziest person ever.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Character, Want, Reactions

  "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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• Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Girl, Adults, Safe

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• No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.

  Dierks Bentley

  Heart, Artist, Corners

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• I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

  Tana French

  Life Changing, Writing, Choices

  "Tana French: I'm haunted by Ireland's ghost estates" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.

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• No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.

  Margaret Sanger

  Death, Science, Privilege

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Government, Path, Dangerous

  "Iraq veteran would be first Hindu in Congress" by Kim Geiger, www.stripes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Love is boundary-less.

  Angel Haze

  Love Is

  "Angel Haze: 'Right now, no one can beat me'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

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• What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

  Steven Johnson

  Inspiration, Ideas, People

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• Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

  Jon Lord

  Mean, Jazz, Form

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• Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

  Jon Lord

  Restriction, Produce, Greater Things

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• That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Country, Thinking, Space

  "Exploring Space, Unearthing Human Emotions". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 13, 2011.

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• I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

  Kevin Powers

  Prose

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• Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.

  Russell Kirk

  Kings, Men, Self

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• I've never met anyone with a perfect upbringing. It seems to me that life on planet Earth just doesn't work that way. The basic challenges of getting our needs met and managing boundaries are inherent in growing up human.

  David Simon

  Growing Up, Perfect, Challenges

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• When seen from outer space, our beautiful blue planet has no national boundaries.

  Dalai Lama

  Beautiful, Blue, Space

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• Love has no boundaries.

  Andrej Pejic

  No Boundaries

  "Meet the models breaking the mould". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2012.

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• I think women who don't understand boundaries are fascinating.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Thinking, Fascinating

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• Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

  John Shelton Reed

  Writing, Mean, Phoenix

  John Shelton Reed (1993). “My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture”, p.5, University of Missouri Press

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• I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.

  Shawn Ryan

  Team, Thinking, Years

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• I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time they are going to bed or how many more minutes until they are leaving for school, and so I have imposed a structure that allows them to know where they are all day long, every day in life.

  Jessica Seinfeld

  Children, School, Long

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