Desperate Quotes - Page 32

• I don't have specific people. There are so many people that I admire and there's directors that I'm desperate to work with that haven't even made a movie yet, probably.

  Jamie Dornan

  People, Directors, Made

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Abdellatif [Laâbi] was wildly popular with his students and it wasn't difficult to see why: like them, he knew that average Moroccans were hungry, jobless and desperate. They also knew they were ruled by a paranoid king who was more comfortable with Parisian financiers than his own subjects.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Kings, Average, Students

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the same way, I can wake up with a very positive idea of what I want to do for my collection, and be completely desperate at night regarding the same thing. And I do a lot of other things too: Writing for me is almost as important as drawing my collection.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Writing, Night, Ideas

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Get Money, Industry

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• 'Tampopo' is a deeply odd film about Japan, ramen noodles, love and sex. It made me very hungry and desperate to travel to Japan. It started my love affair with this amazing country, its culture, its food, its cinema and made me buy my first ticket to the land of the rising sun.

  Jamie Cullum

  Country, Sex, Japan

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• I'm fortunate enough to get to make books for a living, so I spend my entire workday alone in my studio quietly doing my favorite thing in the world. When I need a break from that, it's usually because I'm desperate to see other human beings again!

  Vera Brosgol

  Book, Needs, World

  "Five questions for Vera Brosgol". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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• Part of my reaction to my diagnosis of infertility was deeply sarcastic and critical, part of it was morbid, part of it was numb, part of it was neurotic and desperate. To mush all of those notes together would cancel them out. I ended up just trying to keep them as separate as possible.

  Monica Youn

  Sarcastic, Together, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I mean, our disaster in Libya also unleashed enormous amounts of armaments. We are the world's leading arms dealer, arming all sides everywhere. And have we made the Middle East a more secure place? We're only making it more desperate, more catastrophic and more violent.

  Jill Stein

  Mean, World, Arms

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation.

  Paula White

  Desperation, Middle, Feels

  Source: culteducation.com

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• I'm sure there's just such a desperate feeling if you've lost a child. You'd probably feel so desperate that you would do anything. Even if they came to the door and put a gun to your head, you'd just be happy to see them.

  Cheryl Hines

  Children, Gun, Doors

  "How Molly Shannon and Cheryl Hines survived the zombie apocalypse". Interview with Zack Etheart, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 3, 2014.

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• At this point in history, the desperate need for building a sustainable society and for managing energy usage makes for a really - of vast importance that we need to place on where we live and how we live in those places.

  Jonathon Keats

  Energy, Needs, Building

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was so desperate to get a job on TV (with no money), that I dressed as an old lady, went to the TV channel and said to security that I was the producer's grandma and had brought him lunch.

  Omar Chaparro

  Jobs, Grandma, Lunch

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I'm kind of calling for a - I'm not the only one - you know, a revolution of some kind where we try to take back the web or start something new because, you know, the dominant medium of our time is in a desperate state and it doesn't have to be like that.

  Tim Wu

  Trying, Calling, Revolution

  "How Free Web Content Traps People In An Abyss Of Ads And Clickbait". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, listen.sdpb.org. October 17, 2016.

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• In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else.

  Jill Stein

  People, Hearing

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• OPEC production went from 30 million barrels a day to 33 million. They flooded the market, and it's lost them a lot of money. Look at the Saudis: they just floated a $17.5 billion debt offering, they earlier borrowed $10 billion from a group of international banks; they're selling part of Aramco - they're desperate for money.

  Gary Shilling

  Offering, Groups, Looks

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I think the voters who voted for Donald Trump certainly are willing to tolerate a lot of ugliness, but maybe, if you're in desperate circumstances, or you think America is deeply in trouble, you're willing to tolerate that without necessarily liking it.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, America, Voters

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was desperate to fit in and spoke English all the time. Trouble was, in my household it was a no-no to speak English because somehow it is disrespectful to call parents and grandparents "you" - impersonal pronouns are offensive in Vietnamese.

  Andrew Lam

  Falling In Love, Speak English, Grandparent

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.

  Ai Weiwei

  Growing Up, Disappointment, Joy

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• You cannot be desperate when the army is making advances. That should have happened - if we take into consideration that this presumption is correct and this is reality - you use it when you're in a desperate situation.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Army, Reality, Desperate Situations

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• All the Democrats do is bicker. They're not concerned about the war or the fate of the United States of America. They're desperate characters.

  Jackie Mason

  War, Character, Fate

  Source: spectator.org

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• Television production is so insane. There's so many moving parts and flying pieces and you're desperate to make it cohesive and artistic and have something to say about the human condition that feels like it has value to its existence.

  Bryan Fuller

  Moving, Flying, Insane

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• God knows just the place where you'll be placed. He has a barren living room in desperate need of warmth and joy. A corner of the world needs some color. He selected you with that place in mind.

  Max Lucado

  Color, Joy, Mind

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I've always said that people are desperate to find meaning in their lives.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Said, Find Me

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Many who have voted for the AfD, or who intend to do so, aren't doing so because they are dyed-in-the-wool enemies of democracy. Rather, they are desperate.

  Martin Schulz

  Enemy, Democracy, Wool

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I wrote this book [ Desperate Marriages] because of my own marriage. My wife and I struggled greatly in the early years of marriage. In spite of the fact that we were Christians before we got married, we prayed about getting married, we believed it was God's will for us to get married, and we still had great struggles.

  Gary Chapman

  Christian, Struggle, Book

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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