Distance Quotes - Page 32

• As far as politically how country music goes, it's true that it's regarded from a distance as a genre of music that at different times, the more right elements of the political spectrum have claimed for their own.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Country, Political, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to keep the story moving, I needed to distance myself as much as I could from the characters, to try to get to a point where I could view them objectively.

  Hirokazu Koreeda

  Moving, Writing, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.

  Jim Shepard

  Thinking, Clay, Stuff

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For a lot of us, we feel nostalgic about something with distance, and then [when] we go back to that thing, you remember why we left in the first place.

  Michelle Gomez

  Firsts, Remember, Nostalgic

  Source: www.ign.com

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• David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.

  David Bowie

  Song, Stars, Rocks

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.

  Gregory Pardlo

  Ironic, Brooklyn, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.

  Kathleen Rooney

  Giving, Steps, Events

  Source: therumpus.net

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• All power within the microcosm of my world was held and wielded by people who look like me. Plus, I think Nigerians all have this sense that they are better than everyone, including white people. So I have the privilege of a certain distance. It may just be that. So in a sense, I can't claim that as any ability that I have, simply a matter of circumstance.

  Chris Abani

  Thinking, White, People

  RUMPUS INTERVIEW with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• This mixture of Polish, not Polish, of being European, gives me a perspective to see Poland through "new eyes" - paradoxically, more closely... because it's from a kind of distance.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Eye, Perspective, Giving

  "Berlin Q&A: Director Malgorzata Szumowska". Interview with Kirill Galestski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Over time as an actor, your life with a project can be so short lived because you come on, you do it, and then you're done. You have no control, no say, and all of a sudden there's all of this distance between the work you've put into something and the product as you see it appear on-screen.

  Maggie Siff

  Actors, Done, Projects

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• As an artist, I think it's critical for keeping yourself alive that you try to get your hands into something a little bit more intensely. It's one of the reasons why I love theater because you never actually let go of it and it never feels like there's a tremendous distance between the process and the product.

  Maggie Siff

  Letting Go, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.

  Erin McKeown

  Song, Art, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The second guy I met on the Internet was Tom, who I dated for around 6 months, which is by far the longest relationship I've ever had as an adult. We long distance dated mostly, chatting everyday for a long time on FB chat and Skype. It's hard to imagine a more genuinely caring and kind individual. I owe a lot to him.

  Marie Calloway

  Caring, Long, Guy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In my mother's church, everybody read the Bible and it was mostly about music. My mother had the most beautiful voice I have ever heard in my life. She could sing anything - classical, jazz, blues, opera. And people came from long distances to that little church she went to - African Methodist Episcopal, the AME church she belonged to - just hear her.

  Toni Morrison

  Beautiful, Mother, Voice

  "'I Regret Everything': Toni Morrison Looks Back On Her Personal Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 20, 2015.

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• When somebody mentions that I did a play with George C. Scott, I'm like, it can't have happened. What was I doing on a Broadway stage at 11 years old? It's so far in the distance now.

  Paul Dano

  Years, Play, Broadway

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Anamorphic is very difficult because the distance from the lens to the person to focus is very long so you need a lot of distance from the camera to the person so that means that you need a lot of space.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  Mean, Space, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• Dolphins frequently leap above the water surface. One reason for this behaviour could be that, when travelling longer distances, jumping can save the dolphins energy as there is less friction while in the air.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Jumping, Air, Water

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance.

  David O. Russell

  Character, Way, Sometimes

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• The biggest thing was that second person allowed me to trick myself into revealing more about myself. It gave me an authorial distance to get closer to the action and emotions, if that makes sense.

  Rob Roberge

  Action, Emotion, Revealing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wanted to be a truck driver. I love driving long distances!!!

  Karen Mason

  Long, Driving, Truck

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this feeling that I gave up - that I surrendered, that I felt that I lost my small war. So the whole column is different than the columns that I used to write back home, back in Jerusalem.

  Sayed Kashua

  War, Sadness, Home

  "'It's A Surviving Tool': 'Native' Tells Satirical Stories Of Life In Israel". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. February 12, 2016.

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• When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could have done it. I think I began to distance myself. I didn't visit as often; I didn't write as often. This was kind of after my conversation with [fire science expert] Gerald Hurst. And the [car] accident made sure that I didn't have to go up there. But I think he and I both shared that.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Thinking, Fire

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• I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Thinking, People, Internet

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer.

  Louis Garrel

  Thinking, Paris, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.

  Mark Ruffalo

  My Family

  Source: www.avclub.com

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