Comforting Quotes - Page 13

• I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

  Andrew Solomon

  Differences, People, May

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• It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel.

  Jason Bateman

  Soldier, Trying, Directors

  "Toronto: Jason Bateman on Talks Directing Himself in ‘The Family Fang’". Interview with Kathy A. McDonald, variety.com. September 11, 2015.

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• I typically don't adopt the ascetic approach. In part, that's because I do use the Net for research even as I'm writing (to check facts, or so on). But I think it's also because I find the possibility of distraction comforting.

  James Surowiecki

  Writing, Thinking, Use

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork.

  Ina Garten

  Summer, Winter, Light

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• I think it's more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it often.

  Lynn Hershman Leeson

  Past, Thinking, Labels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The notion that "this too shall pass" is comforting, both in knowing that whatever pain I'm in will change into something else and allowing myself to experience the pain, not trying to blunt it or brush it aside. It's important to feel and to be connected to your emotions, whichever way they play out.

  Patrick Fabian

  Pain, Play, Knowing

  "Actor Patrick Fabian: The power of live music and being connected to emotions". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.

  Marian Keyes

  Our Generation, Voice, Important

  "Bookreporter.com" Interview, www.bookreporter.com. May 7, 2004.

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• I carried Rudy softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder at comforting. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

  Markus Zusak

  Lying, Book, Heart

  "The Book Thief". Book by Markus Zusak, 2005.

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• I was just disciplined. I knew I had to get back into shape after six weeks for the film Goal II, but I cheated in the end - I wore a corset. I loved my pregnancy, I blossomed. I felt goddess-like and very secure. I found it comforting to have a little thing growing inside me, and very calming.

  Anna Friel

  Pregnancy, Goal, Growing

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Mirror interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• So the question never comes up. I love to work with actors who I feel really confident in knowing what I'm going to get from them. And making a movie is such a risk that it's comforting to build up a good support team in production as well as cast.

  Len Wiseman

  Team, Knowing, Support

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview With Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Kind, Harder

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• People who don't want to get on with their lives, and don't want to accept responsibility for the direction of their lives want to hang out with other people who don't want to accept responsibility or move on, and so you find that your entire culture around you are people who are just like you, because that's what's comforting.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Moving, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.

  Kristen Bell

  Sunday, Nachos, Doritos

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• To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

  Timothy Keller

  Relationship, Marriage, Commitment

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.62, Penguin

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• External means of escape like alcohol, drug use, and even overeating are a means of pushing uncertainty away and covering it up temporarily. And they may feel comforting for a moment, but I don't need to tell you that eventually they will cause more trouble than they ever solve.

  Tara Stiles

  Mean, Drug Use, Alcohol

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• Should there be anyone who feels he is too weak to do better because of that greatest of fears, the fear of failure, there is no more comforting assurance to be had than the words of the Lord: 'My Grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them' (Ether 12:27)

  Thomas S. Monson

  Strong, Humble, Men

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• I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

  Anthony Bourdain

  New York, Guy, Accents

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• I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

  Halford Luccock

  Believe, Comfortable, I Believe

  "Religion: Go Ye and Relax?". content.time.com. April 20, 1953.

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• I once talked about wanting to kill myself, but I don't think I was ever really planning on doing it. It was just comforting to know that I could.

  Marc Maron

  Thinking, Planning, Knows

  "Q&A: Marc Maron on the Decline of Conversation, TV Stardom, Oligarchs, Self-Doubt & Cats". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. May 2, 2013.

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• Comics seemed to have a handle on things. They could sort of disarm and get control over reality. I found it very comforting to laugh.

  Marc Maron

  Reality, Laughing, Found

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• I'm not going to change myself because I think it'll make somebody like me more. And in terms of being a business, I've found that when you're always in the people-pleasing mode, that's the easiest way to lose control of your brand's DNA. I want to sit across from someone who's authentically who they are, even if they're not my personal cup of tea. It's still more comforting than being across from someone who's making moves to please other people!

  Nicole Richie

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When you can answer questions about what you think and when you can explain why you think what you think, that's power, it's comforting power.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Answers

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Perhaps preachers today need to think about the assumptions that are common in their congregation - the plausibilities and comforting assurances - which may in themselves have biblical truth, but can easily become insurance policies waved around as immunity from any kind of serious evaluation of how we are living, whether we are truly following the Lord Jesus in the way he walked, whether we are doing righteousness and justice as God commanded.

  Christopher J. H. Wright

  Jesus, Biblical, Thinking

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• It's a lot easier to make a living as a writer in Hollywood than it was probably 10 years ago, though there's still just as many unemployed people in Hollywood as there ever has been, but there's so many more avenues to sell things, because of digital, and Amazon, and Netflix, and all these different platforms. That's crazy and exciting in a creative way, and we'll see where that all stands five years from now. But on the corporate side, I still see that pendulum swinging back in that other direction, which is a little not comforting.

  Ed Brubaker

  Crazy, People, Creative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.

  Dorothy Dix

  Life, Gratitude, Cheer

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