Happenings Quotes - Page 24

• I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed.

  Jo Nesbo

  Couple, Sleep, Intelligent

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• Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.

  Jo Nesbo

  Past, Two, Voice

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• Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Morning, Reading, Talking

  "Oscar Niemeyer Talks About Brasilia, Communism, Regrets". Interview with Michael Luongo, www.bloomberg.com. December 7, 2012.

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• My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Thinking, Challenges, Events

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• When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.

  Danny Pudi

  Running, Morning, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I understand that it's incredibly difficult to watch what's happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I've fallen victim to that myself, wanting to look away.

  Kevin Powers

  Watches, Looks, News

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• The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about character or theme or mood or mode or tense or person. But bowlers say, if you make the spares, the strikes will take care of themselves. If you can tell a story, everything else becomes possible. But without story, nothing is possible, because nobody wants to hear about your sensitive characters if there's nothing happening in the story. And the same is true with mood. Story is the only thing that's important.

  Stephen King

  Character, Writing, Important

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• Personally, I am more than ever inclined to believe that the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion are genuine. Without them I do not see how one could explain things that are happening today. More than ever, I think the Jews are at the bottom of all our troubles.

  Nesta Helen Webster

  Believe, Thinking, Zion

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• It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.

  Cyndi Lauper

  People, Able, Pulse

  "New Again: Cyndi Lauper". Interview with Gael Love and Glenn O’Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.

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• Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time.

  Trevor Nunn

  Home, Ensemble, London

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• I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.

  Jake Owen

  Song, Believe, Believable

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• In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

  Oren Peli

  Imagination, Anxiety, Anticipation

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• I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.

  Aleksa Palladino

  Thinking, Strange Places, Feelings

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• No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.

  Francine Pascal

  Parent, Body, Matter

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• There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.

  Sean Parker

  Artist, Way, Streaming

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• Traveling to Europe and traveling in the U.S.A. was a much different experience. 'On the Road' exemplified everything glamorous that was happening on this side of the planet. The book puts off some kind of sweet melody - part hope for the world, part nostalgic.

  Edward Ruscha

  Sweet, Book, Europe

  "Ed Ruscha on Kerouac, Social Media and Pop Culture in the 1960s". Interview with Tara Solomon, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• I can't actually think of a job where I was relaxed the whole time. I don't think I would want to do that job. When I break into a cold sweat when I'm reading, I think, 'Oh good. That's what's supposed to be happening.

  Lily Rabe

  Jobs, Reading, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!

  Lily Rabe

  Beautiful, Jobs, Writing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  People, Together, Losing

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• I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

  Barbet Schroeder

  Country, Childhood, Colombia

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• The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Southern, Process, Surface

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• Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way.

  Frederick Buechner

  Life, Beautiful, Prayer

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Sep 27, 2013

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• In this world we see more passion than dispassion. We see more fear than knowledge. Armies rule the world. Fear-net is happening. Consequently, everyone is raised with fear embedded in their consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Passion, Buddhism, Army

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• I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hurt, Real, Writing

  "The Sandman. Issue #75: The Tempest". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1996.

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• The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.

  K. D. Lang

  Tired, Sky, Infinite

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