Certain Quotes - Page 19

• When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.

  Stanley Clarke

  Winning, People, Links

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• The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.

  Tucker Carlson

  Thinking, Eras, Republican

  "Tucker Carlson: End of Clinton era is nigh". Interview, www.cnn.com. December 13, 2000.

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• I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!

  Lydia Davis

  Dream, Fun, English Words

  Our Live Chat with Lydia Davis, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2009.

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• The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Yield, Things In Life, Ideas

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2001.

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• The reason for privacy is not so that people will not know you go to the bathroom. It's to allow certain things to go on that you don't want other people to know about, when all is said and done. But the things I don't want other people to know about are not my sex life.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Sex, People, Done

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2001.

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• I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.

  Sean Duffy

  Running, Reality, Tv Shows

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• I do have comfort, because as an actor you don't want that anxiety of wondering if you're going to continue with a certain role or if you're going to be employed the next year. It's nice to be comfortable with that and then you can concern yourself with the stories and nothing else. There's no other agenda than putting out a good product.

  Tim DeKay

  Nice, Years, Anxiety

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• Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

  Barbara Deming

  Jail, Doubt, Trying

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.

  Charles Dance

  Age

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• In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.

  Griffin Dunne

  Independent, Community, Amy

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.

  Joe Dante

  People, Challenges, Trying

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• For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty?

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Character, Mean

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• When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

  Viola Davis

  Jobs, School, Thinking

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 18, 2009.

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• It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.

  Willem Dafoe

  Character, Thinking, Roles

  Interview with Jonathan Romney, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 1998.

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• Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.

  Willem Dafoe

  Dancer, Actors, Doers

  "Willem Dafoe: 'You do your best work when you're scared" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.

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• That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.

  Willem Dafoe

  Frustration, Directors, Stories

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• Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Hollywood, Stories, Levels

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 29, 2010.

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• Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

  Nick Flynn

  Events, Stories, Who We Are

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• I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I've published several books, I've never been able to get a permanent teaching job.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Jobs, Book, Teaching

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• I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

  Paula Fox

  People, Lovely, Kind

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• There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

  Paula Fox

  People, Balance, Different

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• We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.

  Robert Fortune

  Sap, Woods, Way

  Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.85

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• I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.

  Sky Ferreira

  Growing Up, Home, Grandmother

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.

  Tim Ferriss

  Eye, Quality, Want

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• I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.

  Vera Farmiga

  Thinking, Energy, Definitions

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