Flawed Quotes - Page 9

• It's hard to find female leads that are flawed and interesting and dynamic.

  Rashida Jones

  Interesting, Female, Hard

  "Interview with Rashida Jones – Co-writer and Star of Celeste and Jesse Forever". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. August 1, 2012.

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• If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.

  Carly Fiorina

  Government, Decision, Process

  "A very bad business" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.

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• It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.

  Nathan Fillion

  Cute, Character, Careers

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• The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

  Tim Ferriss

  People, Dinner, Way

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• I love flawed female characters, duking it out.

  Lena Dunham

  Character, Female, Female Characters

  "Lena Dunham and Producer Judd Apatow Talk HBO Series GIRLS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite.

  Junot Diaz

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

  "Author Explains Tales Of New Vision, New Life". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 10, 2009.

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• Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.

  Steve Carell

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Everyone Makes Mistakes

  "‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’: Steve Carell Talks Divorce, Infidelity In New Film". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2011.

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• I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Girl, Thinking, Interesting

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• The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Mean, Unique, Important

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• Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry for something flawed and of-the-flesh.

  Jerry Saltz

  Italian, Feelings, Looks

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• Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.

  Kij Johnson

  Adventure, Imperfection, Events

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• Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

  Daniel Quinn

  Life, Men, Greed

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.83, Bantam

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• ... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us extraordinary

  Dorothy Allison

  Lying, Self, Hatred

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• ...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

  Anita Desai

  Moon, Garden, Risk

  Anita Desai (1980). “Clear Light of Day”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control.

  Dan Brown

  Faith, Believe, Simple

  "Angels and Demons". Book by Dan Brown, 2000.

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• Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection.

  Annie Dillard

  Perfection, Vision, Pressure

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

  Mindy Kaling

  Funny, Writing, Character

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• The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

  Douglas Kennedy

  Parent, Forgiving, Adults

  Douglas Kennedy (2010). “The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

  Patti Smith

  Music Business, Appease

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• Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

  Michael Shermer

  Survival, Democracy, Enlightenment

  Michael Shermer (2012). “The Believing Brain: From Spiritual Faiths to Political Convictions – How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths.”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.

  Drew Barrymore

  Character, Imperfection, Stronger

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• [In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human being writes something and 60 years later a reader picks up the book and something in them rises to meet it.

  George Saunders

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.

  Roxane Gay

  People, Feminism, Movement

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the center--that center which she coveted for herself and recognized instantly in others. Fruits had it, the very heart of, say, a cherry, where the true worth and flavor lay. Some of course were flawed or hollow in there. Many, in fact.

  Edna O'Brien

  Heart, Self, Secret

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• The pure love of Christ can remove the scales of resentment and wrath from our eyes, allowing us to see others the way our Heavenly Father sees us: as flawed and imperfect mortals who have potential and worth far beyond our capacity to imagine. Because God loves us so much, we too must love and forgive each other.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Eye, Wrath

  "The Merciful Obtain Mercy". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2012.

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