Comment Quotes - Page 15

• We can skip through a lot of the stuff people might ask about the writing of the book, and so their comments always start well, well down into the nitty-gritty.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that.

  William Carlos Williams

  Ifs

  William Carlos Williams, Robert McAlmon (1967). “Contact”

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• I am not sure I knew what I was doing, writing an "apocalypse" novel, when I started this book. Now that the book is done, I can own that I have in fact written an apocalypse novel, one that speculates on a dark, dark future. Why I did it, I really don't know - every time people read my work they comment on its darkness, its sadness.

  Edan Lepucki

  Book, Writing, Sadness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have been villainized because of my identity - I've received nasty blog comments and emails just based on my willingness to identify with feminism by people who clearly don't understand what I value and why I identify as a feminist. Ultimately, I'm less concerned with whether or not people identify as feminist and am more concerned with whether or not people understand what feminism is. If they don't want to identify as a feminist that's fine. I respect people's decision to identify any way they want and expect that same respect in return, although I don't always get it.

  Julie Zeilinger

  People, Feminist, Decision

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition, a constant monitoring of who's thinner, comments about it - either compliments or veiled insults doesn't matter - it always drives me nuts.

  Kate Christensen

  Men, Nuts, Competition

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Reality's its own thing. And I'm not really into reality that much. I'm into this cinematic stylized reality that can comment on reality. It's like the most beautiful parts of reality and the saddest parts, but it's none of this middle ground.

  Zack Snyder

  Beautiful, Reality, Middle

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My fear is you have to be careful as a writer to not get caught up in social media and blogging, because it can start to feed into your writing time. When you are writing a book, it's such a long journey where the payoff is way at the end, sometimes years away. The payoff of the blog post is today. You get the reinforcement, comments or "likes" immediately. It's appealing. You have to be patient with the book.

  Matt de la Pena

  Book, Writing, Journey

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is never appropriate to comment on a woman's breasts. I would never do it on the street or at a supermarket, but when I'm sitting a table signing books, sometimes I notice that a woman will have remarkable breasts. And I will maybe quietly say something about it. It's not in a sexual way, because I'm a gay man - I would never say to a man "great ass" because that would be sort of creepy.. I hope it's not creepy to quietly tell a woman she has nice breasts.

  David Sedaris

  Nice, Book, Gay

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• Obviously, you take the risk to step over the line any time you do something where comedians interact with each other. Like a roast, somebody's always going to cross over the line. As far as the public goes, I like feedback, I like to hear laughter, and I like the occasional pointed heckle, but it's true: Everybody thinks that they need to express their opinion now. There's been this sea change where people are constantly writing to me directly about stuff, where in the past you'd never hear about it, because nobody would try to find you to make one of their stupid comments.

  Doug Benson

  Laughter, Stupid, Writing

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Everybody wants to have a commentary on my life, like they are actually living it. Cool, comment all you want but I'm the one that's living it.

  Katy Perry

  Want, Actually Living, Commentary

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• The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war in each story without having to comment on its all-encompassing nature. Turn the page and here are new characters and new situations, but the war remains... Isn't that how life has been for us for over a decade?

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  War, Writing, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We've also had comments in relation to Donald Trump's comments in respect of investment in Scotland- the UK government has never given Mr Trump awards or appointments.

  James Brokenshire

  Awards, Government, Scotland

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Even when I'm trying to be straightforward and honest and my comments are innocent, inevitably they get turned into something sort of salacious.

  Megan Fox

  Trying, Honest, Innocent

  "Megan Fox and Will Arnett Talk TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, Childhood Ninja Turtle Memories, Going from Digital Transformers to Turtles and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 6, 2014.

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• I get to do stand-up every single day. I love that live energy exchange between the audience and myself, and to get to say the things I want to say and comment on.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Energy, Want, Audience

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• That was exciting to be able to comment on civil rights. I mean, the civil rights movement that young people don't know about today, but Martin Luther King was considered by the establishment press in the early years of the sit-in movement as a dangerous man, and he was the equivalent at that time as Malcolm X. And he was told to stop his demonstrations; they were against the law and all of that. Now that he's sainted and sanctified we've forgotten.

  Jules Feiffer

  Mean, Men, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I received so many positive comments about the quotes that I decided to continue to use them in my novels.

  Julie Klassen

  Use, Novel, Decided

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• My first obligation is to entertain but as far as science fiction goes, it's much easier to comment on today from another time because people then aren't focused on 'did you get the details right?' It's sort of a Trojan horse approach to ideas because it's wrapped in the future, it's wrapped in action, thriller.

  Andrew Niccol

  Horse, Ideas, People

  "Director Andrew Niccol IN TIME Interview; Talks About Adapting Stephenie Myer’s THE HOST". Interview with Tommy Cook, collider.com. October 25, 2011.

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• A career is measured over the course of the years, not moments. Over good decisions, over successes, not moments, failures, missteps, or bad comments. I learned that I needed to take a step back and look at my career not in that one moment that made me feel really bad, but what I had done not even in the past one or two years or last one or two hires, but that that career is built over many, many, many, many successive quarters and years and good decisions - never, ever made in that one moment where you felt really bad.

  Alexis Maybank

  Past, Decision, Done

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We must confront the reality that his [Donald Trump] comments have provoked, and consider whether we want to import such hatred to this country.

  Tulip Siddiq

  Country, Reality, Hatred

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• In the old days talks would have made me angry. But now that I've come out, everyone knows the truth. That's like a protective shield against comments like that. Stupid remarks and jokes no longer hurt me, because I can stand by being gay. Nowadays I can even laugh at jokes about gays. Now I feel free, hungry and strong.

  Orlando Cruz

  Strong, Hurt, Stupid

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time.

  Keir Starmer

  Believe, Merit, Offensive

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I posed for a gay magazine, which caused much comment. But it doesn't bother me. Gay people are fighting the same kind of stereotyping that bodybuilders are: People have certain misconceptions about them just as they do about us.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Fighting, Gay, People

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

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• We are uniting in condemning the comments of Donald Trump on Muslims and women.

  Keir Starmer

  Uniting, Trump, Condemning

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• You should never read online comments if you want to keep thoughts above the belt.

  Heidi Julavits

  Want, Online, Should

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some people we define as trolls are just critics. Sometimes they have a point. And I hear them. But for the ones who comment "I want to kill you in your sleep," I respond to them too.

  Jenny Lawson

  Sleep, People, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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