Broken Quotes - Page 31

• I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.

  Marc Almond

  Teenage, School, Parent

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.

  Moby

  Humility, People, Degrees

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.

  Paul Auster

  Summer, New York, Writing

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.

  Moby

  Shells, Kind, Endearing

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I came back from Japanese tour a broken man to find that one of my outside productions was very high in the charts and that was Nazareth. I stepped into another career and suddenly became a well-known producer.

  Roger Glover

  Men, Careers, Nazareth

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Character, Differences, Tape

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I will reform our broken visa system. Nearly half of the people in this country illegally came here on legal visas and simply never left. We need to fix that.

  Carly Fiorina

  Country, People, Reform

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• We must fix our broken education system. Every parent deserves a choice as to how to best educate their children so that every child has a chance to fulfill their potential.

  Carly Fiorina

  Children, Choices, Parent

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• I love looking at sculpture, but there's some sort of spell that's broken with it.

  Joe Bradley

  Sculpture, Spells

  Interview With Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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• I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.

  Julian Schnabel

  Thinking, Painting, Dishes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book was that I loved the poetry of broken English. Broken English and vernacular. It just floored me that you can actually capture the way people really talked. And I also really connected to the social class element.

  Matt de la Pena

  Book, Color, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One path I've used a lot is to deeply and thoughtfully consider a trope or a tradition, and then set about taking it apart - but only in the service of a character or story that deserves it. Another path I often employ is to put form into "play" - to set it free from its ordinary constraints and let it be free-floating and broken-apart and rearranged.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Character, Play, Ordinary

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when the characters came alive. It's fascinating what happens to the model you've so assiduously assembled when characters are allowed to run rampant: things you thought essential are broken and other things are vastly improved.

  Lauren Groff

  Running, Character, Intellectual

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.

  Lauren Groff

  Historical, Eras, Rough Times

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like "f**'ed up childhood" or "broken home," none of them sound good. Were our childhoods better or worse? I don't know. It's different.

  Bucky Sinister

  Home, Childhood, Sound

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The act of looking is brave. Especially if you look at things you can't handle. I think that most people do not look. If you're really paying attention you could have your heart broken twelve times a day. Most of the time we aren't looking.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that.

  Richard Flanagan

  Our Relationship, Ends, Made

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We can have our hearts broken over so much more. It is important to recognize the full spectrum of heartbreak. We can be heartbroken by lost and by disappointment. But heartbreak is not just this negative image we see, it's not this terrible experience that brings no benefits.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Heartbroken, Disappointment, Important

  "The Rumpus Interview With Sandra Cisneros". Interview with Olivia, therumpus.net. January 13, 2016.

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• Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.

  Jon Weisman

  Party, Cutting, Circles

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a beautiful, expressive English but it is non-standard, "broken" English that happens to be efficient, eloquent, and communicates perfectly well even if it is breaking rules.

  Elliott Colla

  Beautiful, Couple, Breaking Rules

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country.

  Valerie June

  Girl, Country, Together

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not Pollyanna - I know that my personality and my opinions and how I approach the teaching of writing maybe isn't exactly how it's done traditionally in the academy...wherever that academy is...but, you know, the academy is broken as it relates to many creative writing programs.

  Tod Goldberg

  Teaching, Writing, Personality

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Only in an Orwellian [Barack] Obama world full of sprinkly fairy dust broken from atop his unicorn as he's peeking through a really pretty pink kaleidoscope would he ever see victory or safety for America or Israel in this treaty. This treaty will not bring peace. You don't reward terrorism. You kill it!

  Sarah Palin

  Israel, Dust, America

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Fashion is meant to be wild and expressive. I love colour but I also love basics - grungy minimalism mixed with this kind of broken-down cheerleader, is my thing.

  Charli XCX

  Fashion, Cheerleader, Kind

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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• You don't know how people are going to respond. But I would add to that, that getting your heart broken is not the worst thing and it's actually quite unavoidable. I think in some ways I had to break my father's heart and then face that in order to have a real relationship with him.

  Melissa Febos

  Father, Real, Heart

  Source: therumpus.net

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