Couple Quotes - Page 33

• When a movie comes out, I always go off on a beach so I miss all the craziness that goes on, all the hoopla, and the hype and the success, and how much it's making, or whether it's doing good or whether it's doing bad. I just miss it all. I don't talk to anybody, and a couple weeks later I come back and it's all over with.

  George Lucas

  Beach, Hype, Missing

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant.

  Lauryn Hill

  Sprung Up, Acting, Sometimes

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• I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.

  Mac DeMarco

  Growing Up, Night, Years

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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• I got a lot of mail from organizations concerned with bike safety. Then I got a couple from people who wanted my support for mandatory helmet laws. I can't support that. If you pass a law like that you'll do more harm than good, because you'll make people think they've done something about the problem when they haven't.

  Dave Barry

  Thinking, Law, Organization

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Lines, Gains, Tag

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• I try to do things positive on my throat, but a couple things are negative like smoking and drinking heavily. I really don't know. There's no particular thing that I do that's beneficial - it just kinda works. I guess I'd say warming up every day before a performance is the biggest thing.

  Mitch Lucker

  Drinking, Smoking, Trying

  Source: www.theaureview.com

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• I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when my mind is freshest. I might write for a couple of hours, and then I head out to have lunch and read the paper. Then I write for a little bit longer if I can, then probably go to the library or make some phone calls. Every day is a little bit different. I'm not highly routinized, so I spend a lot of time wandering around New York City with my laptop in my bag, wondering where I'm going to end up next. It's a fairly idyllic life for someone who likes writing.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Morning, New York, Home

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. December 2008.

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• Spending time by myself is VERY important to me and I wake up pretty early, I wake up around 5 in the morning, and I get to have a couple hours to myself, and that is definitely I think really important to me and I think it's important for moms to have that too. And I love to carve out time for myself and sometimes I'll hang out with girlfriends, but i like to keep things pretty intimate.

  Nicole Richie

  Mom, Girlfriend, Morning

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 17, 2014.

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• Music meant more to me than a social life and just hangin out. haha just being tired of repacking my suit case every couple of days, and anytime i wanted to cop some new clothes i would have to throw away something I had to make room in the suitcase.

  G-Eazy

  Tired, Clothes, Haha

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• I think the one reason that writers marry other writers - one of the reasons that I married another writer - was, I fell in love with that writer. But second of all, I had been married before and a source of marital strife was me needing to go away for a couple of weeks to write or it's Saturday and I think I just need to work today and not hang out with you.

  Heidi Julavits

  Writing, Thinking, Going Away

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

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• A couple of things for the not-so-diminutive man: avoid any prints that are large scale, because you will look like the print is wearing you, as opposed to you wearing the print.

  Tim Gunn

  Men, Looks, Scales

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• I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

  Tim Gunn

  Book, Library, Next

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days, a few words will lock themselves into place. I might just get the first line. Then words just keep falling into the syllables. The choruses kind of write themselves and verses I have to work at a little bit.

  Jack Johnson

  Fall, Writing, Locks

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• Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

  Eric Allman

  Funny, Science, Technology

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• I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers, but they can't spell. Because spell-check won't [help] you if you don't know through from threw. I told them, "If you can read in the 21st century, you own the world." Because you learn to write from reading.

  Stephen King

  Reading, School, Kids

  "A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Your state of consciousness today is not the same as it used to be or as it will be in two weeks or a couple of years from now.

  Harold Klemp

  Years, Two, Today

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• It's fun to be in a small club and to be able to look somebody right in the eye and watch them just freak. Then it's fun to be in front of thousands of people and watch a couple of hundred freaking out of their minds.

  Lou Reed

  Fun, Eye, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Socialism, in the traditional sense, meant government ownership and operation of the means of production. Outside of North Korea and a couple of other spots, no one in the world today would define socialism that way. That will never come back.

  Milton Friedman

  Mean, Government, Korea

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We went to Australia when I was eight or nine. We lived there for a couple of years, and then came back and lived in North Wales for the whole of my teenage years... I learned how to write poems quite a lot. I just had a good time reading and reading and reading. So that's where I did most of my growing up.

  Philip Pullman

  Mother, Growing Up, Teenage

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

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• I'm also for gay marriage, because I say they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us. Love is bigger than government. And Texas, by the way, has a very progressive law about gay couples adopting kids. We just won't let them get married. So that's not common sense.

  Kinky Friedman

  Kids, Gay, Love Is

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. October 10.

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• The range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was a chief girl and a chief boy - a girl that all the other girls of that age looked up to and imitated and a boy that all the boys looked up to and imitated. I realized that if I got them on my side and exclusively taught them for a couple of weeks, maybe for the first full term, then I wouldn't have any trouble. Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

  Philip Pullman

  Girl, Teacher, Children

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

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• It seems that people are more comfortable with the private outrage about gay marriage, because when you are outraged about this issue, it requires no work. There's no work that you have to do when you're outraged about a gay couple. There is work that you have to do if you want to see black fathers raise their children. There is work that you have to do if you want to see a school develop.

  Otis Moss III

  Children, Father, School

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I've done songs about bad experiences, a couple about growing up in the ghetto and being abused, sexually. Being raped. And I talk about it.

  Lady Saw

  Song, Growing Up, Ghetto

  Interview with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, believermag.com. July 1, 2010.

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• The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn't always happen.

  Agnes Varda

  Strong, Years, People

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Hands

  "Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra". Comedy, Music, May 9, 2009.

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