Connections Quotes - Page 30

• I actually enjoy Instagram. I enjoy seeing what people who I have some connection to are doing around the globe. I'm even old-school Instagram. I'm here for your "What did you have to eat today?" I'm fine with that.

  Ted Leo

  Old School, People, Today

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In acting, you're only responsible for your part. When you're directing, the load is on your shoulders, so you have to feel a strong connection to the material. It's a higher bar to get over.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Strong, Acting, Bars

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Film is more of a dream when you're younger. I found it almost impossible to see how you would get into the industry having no connections, nobody in the family being anywhere near it and never meeting anybody that had been on a set.

  Ben Wheatley

  Dream, Impossible, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance of his society's manifold connections with the wider world, the fact that prosperity and security at home, for instance, often depend on extensive violence and exploitation abroad.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Home, Ignorance, Novelists

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped.

  Alvar Aalto

  Cells, Encounters, World

  Alvar Aalto, J. Stewart Johnson (1984). “Alvar Aalto, Furniture and Glass: Exhibition the Museum of Modern Art, New York”

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• Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Israel, Years

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• People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

  Paul Auster

  People, Arbitrary, Life Is

  "Paul Auster: 'I'm going to speak out as often as I can, otherwise I can't live with myself'". Interview with Paul Laity, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2017.

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• Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Kindness, Compassion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.158

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• Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

  John Berger

  Drawing, Way, Metaphor

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• In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed.

  Juliette Binoche

  Sleep, Doors, Cities

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• Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  People, Ears, Levels

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• The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Blood, Sight, People

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• I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

  Eli Broad

  Golf, Play, Long

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• As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.

  Sandra Bullock

  Technology, Human Connection, Intimate

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• Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.

  Sandra Bullock

  New Orleans, Community, Louisiana

  "Sandra Bullock: The Undercover Activist". Interview with Skip Hollandsworth, www.glamour.com. September 30, 2006.

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• I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

  Nicolas Cage

  Inspirational, Powerful, Thinking

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• When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds.

  Nicolas Cage

  Italian, Men, White Man

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• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  Adam Carolla

  Mom, Emotional, My Family

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• I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Fun, Men, Ideas

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• If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire best director category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.

  Diablo Cody

  Directors, Would Be, Attention

  "Diablo Cody on the Challenge of Directing While Raising a Toddler, and Women in Film (Q&A)". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 30, 2013.

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• Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

  Mason Cooley

  Inspirational, Compassion, Caregivers

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• What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf.

  Alice Cooper

  Golf, Play, Scotland

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• Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship, but I haven't lost her friendship. We still phone each other for a good chat.

  Russell Crowe

  Friendship, Beautiful, Loss

  "My 15 minutes with Russell Crowe". Interview with Emma Brocke, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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• I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

  Rachel Cusk

  Children, Writing, Risk

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• To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

  Louis C. K.

  Goal, Laughing, Comedy

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