Certain Quotes - Page 28

• I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff.

  Alex O'Loughlin

  Fire, Stories, Stuff

  "Interview: ALEX O’LOUGHLIN from MOONLIGHT on CBS" by Sandrine Sahakians, www.tvequals.com. November 24, 2007.

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• Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.

  Amanda Plummer

  College, Stories, Records

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

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• I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

  Ridley Pearson

  Thinking, Two, Voice

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• The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.

  Alan Parsons

  Dark, Moon, Sides

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

  George Papandreou

  Choices Made, Moments, Nations

  "Papandreou unveils radical reforms to salvage Greece's public finances" by Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2009.

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• Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain.

  Jason Priestley

  Giving Up, Years, Acting

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• Every movie soaks into you for a certain amount of time.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Amount

  "My life as the man in black" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2006.

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• I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Literature, Film

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• I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Character, Thinking, Behaviour

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

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• My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.

  Michael Polanyi

  Community, Body, Way

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• So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.

  Michael Polanyi

  Vocabulary, Long, Use

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• There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot.

  Amy Ryan

  Baby, Doors, Feet

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• It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.

  Chance the Rapper

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

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• When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.

  Margot Robbie

  Girl, Needs, Looks

  "Margot Robbie profile: Quotes, photos, videos and selected filmography of BAFTA nominee" by Mikey Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. January 30, 2015.

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• I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.

  Amy Ray

  Girl, Writing, Thinking

  "Another side of Amy Ray" by Todd Leopold, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.

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• What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.

  David O. Russell

  Crazy, Age, Lucky

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• I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Philosophy, Media, People

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• In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

  Herbert Read

  Coherence, Degrees, Evolution

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Excess, Half, Ransom

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• Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing.

  Portia de Rossi

  Awards, Dresses, Looks

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

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• I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

  Sam Raimi

  Mother, Dream, Grandma

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• You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.

  Satyajit Ray

  Pakistan, Want, Limits

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.

  Shawn Ryan

  Tv Shows, Cost, Want

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• I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere.

  Sonny Rollins

  Atmosphere, Clubs, Jazz

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