Faces Quotes - Page 33

• I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces, feeling a little bit better about themselves and the people in their lives.

  Janet Evanovich

  Book, Writing, People

  Interview with Brian Sherwin, briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.ru. October 31, 2010.

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• I would hope that my readers feel a sense of awe at the quality of human endurance, at the endurance of love in the face of a variety of difficulties; that the quotidian life is not always easy, and is something worthy of respect.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Quality, Endurance, Life Is

  Source: www.bookbrowse.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, Distance

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.

  Jasper Fforde

  Order, Dancing, Good Man

  "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.

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• There's not many people on the face of the earth that don't know Harry Potter is Daniel Radcliffe. He's had that since he was eleven years old, yet he hasn't changed since the day I met him.

  Matthew Lewis

  Years, People, Potters

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The individual writer is a lonely figure in the wilderness of agents, editors, chain bookstores, and dwindling numbers of independents. The stronger MWA can be, the better it can serve us, and the more respect it can bring to bear in dealing with the problems most of us face every day.

  Charles Todd

  Lonely, Editors, Numbers

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion.

  Eliza Griswold

  Islam, Important, Violent

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination, the face of poverty is black. In all actuality, the face of poverty is white.

  Darryl Pinckney

  White, Justice, Imagination

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others.

  Satish Kumar

  Self, Challenges, Goes On

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• I have the weirdest job. The hair and makeup people were talking the other day about how weird their job is. And costumes, they have to be in people's faces and have to reach in their skirts to pull their shirts down and stuff. I was like, "You guys, I meet someone, I shake their hand, and then I kiss them. And sober. During midday. For money."

  Mary Elizabeth Ellis

  Jobs, Kissing, Makeup

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• From a young age, my parents always told me and my sister how important it was as a girl to be more than just a pretty face and I think we've carried that message through out our lives.

  Coco Rocha

  Girl, Thinking, Parent

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Kevin Bacon and I recently worked on a move together, R.I.P.D. Just before we'd begin a scene, when all of us would feel the normal anxiety that actors feel be- fore they start to perform, Kevin would look at me and the other actors with a very serious expression on his face and say: "Remember, everything depends on this!" It would make us all laugh. On the one hand, it's not true of course, but on the other, everything does depend on this, on just this moment and our attitude toward this moment.

  Jeff Bridges

  Attitude, Moving, Remembers Everything

  "Jeff Bridges and his Buddhist teacher ruminate on life". Interview with Bernie Glassman, www.today.com. January 8, 2013.

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• Mac [Barnett] and I prank each other during our presentation. We show baby pictures of each other looking completely ridiculous. I can't believe the frilly shirt that I'm in, and Mac's wearing a sailor suit and playing a toy piano. That's a perfect example of a good prank, where we have three hundred people literally laughing in our faces, three hundred kids at every assembly. And it feels really good. It's really fun.

  Jory John

  Baby, Fun, Believe

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can be approached in fiction than in fact. There are risks for the reader, because after reading certain books you find you have changed irreversibly. There are risks for writers: in China, now, and Ethiopia and other countries right now, writers face real persecution.

  Chris Abani

  Country, Real, Book

  Interview with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to hang the transformation and survival of our species on the journey and transformation of one singular person so far outside of what we expect they can do.

  Chris Abani

  Journey, Darkness, Survival

  Interview with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• People have a natural tendency to read emotions out of faces, so when you see a face that is hyperreal but without the life behind the eyes, it's really off-putting and intriguing.

  Hiro Murai

  Eye, People, Emotion

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I like the idea of reading into people's faces when they're not emoting. Some people are fascinated, some are sympathizing.

  Hiro Murai

  Reading, Ideas, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Obviously, it was a big life change for me and quite a shock to suddenly have these songs I'd written in my bedroom as a far-too-intense teenager all over the airwaves and see my face on buses, especially in a small country like New Zealand, but at the same time it was such a thrill and an honour knowing that my music was reaching people.

  Brooke Fraser

  Country, Song, Life Changing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• One story I've been trying to write for years, and haven't been able to finish, is about a face I saw, just a glimpse of a face, in a max security prison in North Carolina. I'm still trying to understand what I saw in that guy's face.

  Peter Orner

  Writing, Years, Guy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average - are everyday speech. We don't even question the language, although the challenges we face require a different mindset.

  L. Todd Rose

  Average, Challenges, Everyday

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I don't know how to talk about technology in a positive or negative way because it's just the way the world is to me. It seems like talking about the advantages of breathing through holes in our face instead of holes that lead more directly to the lungs.

  Chelsea Martin

  Technology, Talking, Breathing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I found out that I made it to the Season 11 finale, I was so shocked that if you went on YouTube and re-watch the Top 3 Results Show, you will see my face looked like a bus hit it.

  Jessica Sanchez

  Watches, Made, Results

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. January 19, 2016.

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• Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.

  Wendy Starland

  Competition, Challenges, Crooks

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Track, Records

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I`d like to address the people of Flint. Your families face a crisis. A crisis you did not create and could not have prevented. I want to speak directly, honestly and sincerely to let you know we are praying for you, we are working hard for you, and we are absolutely committed to taking the right steps to effectively solve this crisis.

  Rick Snyder

  People, Addresses, Want

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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