Complicated Quotes - Page 38

• I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

  John Irving

  Believe, Character, Plot

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• I'm a guy who is a little bit complicated and is a little bit in his own head and is not the most free-spirited, fun-loving kind of guy.

  Jason Bateman

  Fun, Guy, Littles

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• I like things that are never one way. Usually, emotionally, I make the films based on a type of energy. I try to work with things that are more difficult to articulate. And so, that's more of a feeling. And so, the things that have attracted me are more of the things that are morally complicated or emotionally complicated.

  Harmony Korine

  Feelings, Trying, Way

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• What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.

  Dermot Mulroney

  People, Library, Research

  Source: collider.com

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• Health care's complicated, can be misrepresented, it's personal, it can spark fear, it's expensive, and the people who have got the money want to keep it.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Care, Want

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave.

  Kenny Chesney

  Simplicity, Sometimes, Certain

  "Spiritual side of Kenny Chesney". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. April 29, 2013.

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• The purpose of life is to be happy. I don't think it's any more complicated than that. It's also important not to interfere with anybody else's right to do the same. We just need to practice that. It's the Golden Rule.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Practice, Important

  "How May I Serve? An Interview with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. November 26, 2013.

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• I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an amazing mother, being a mother is already so complicated. It's already three-dimensional, automatically, no matter what the role is, because you're playing a mother.

  Eva Mendes

  Mother, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• I wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if I was, I would just write complicated roles for women because there's a lack of them.

  Eva Mendes

  Writing, Wish, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usually are more complicated.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Nice, Trying, Different

  "Stellan Skarsgard Exclusive Interview; Talks THOR, MELANCHOLIA, and David Fincher’s THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 29, 2010.

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• I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Track, Worry, Understanding

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• As long as you still have one bridge left, nothing is lost. But from the moment that you cannot even understand the storytelling or the music of other cultures anymore, then we become strangers to each other and the situation will become very complicated.

  Paulo Coelho

  Other Cultures, Bridges, Long

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• As for documentary, it was a natural progression from my earlier career in journalism. The two media are connected, but of course making films is much more complicated, because you have image, sound and music to work with, not simply words.

  Nancy Kates

  Sound And Music, Media, Careers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time.

  Heidi Julavits

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  "The Brilliant Complications of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• When I look at my audience, I can tell better who's in the crowd and the kind of joke I shouldn't do. It's just complicated. I guess I sift through to make sure these jokes are a little different with not such a harsh edge to them. That's pretty much how I handle the crowd.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Different, Looks, Crowds

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.

  Milton Friedman

  Winning, Market Efficiency, Argument

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• How complicated can ice cream flavors be? How much can you put in there? I mean, when the flavor's something like banana ice cream with caramel, fudge chunks, cheddar goldfish and pennies - you've got to draw a line there.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• What feminism did was make clear for me how much I longed for clarity. I got married twice, each time in a fog. I had so many complicated feelings I couldn't understand.

  Vivian Gornick

  Fog, Feelings, Feminism

  "We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was". Interview with Madeleine Schwartz, believermag.com. March 24, 2014.

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• The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Fighting, People, Trying

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are complicated, your life becomes more complicated.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Realize Things, People, News

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Religious, Literature, True Religion

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My dad was a complicated man. He was a huge racist, my dad, but he still tried to be a good father, you know? Like, he would tell me that Santa Claus was black - that way, when I found out he didn't exist, it wouldn't be that big a let down.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Dad, Father

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• If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.

  Sam Altman

  Sentences, Ifs

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• You don't need to make the structure complicated, in fact you shouldn't. All you need is for every employee to know who their manager is.

  Sam Altman

  Needs, Facts, Structure

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• I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this. I felt responsible but also connected and empathetic. It was a very complicated relationship we had, whichever side you were on. The shock of being there was very few people my own age - I was primarily in the North in the streets of Hanoi. A whole generation was essentially decimated.

  Anne Waldman

  People, Age, Complicated Relationship

  Source: logosjournal.com

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