Instance Quotes - Page 6

• If you're an independent, you don't get on TV. And in the rare instances that you do get on, you get a fraction of what that very same movie would get if it came in through Fox or Viacom.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Independent, Foxes, Tvs

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• I've always looked at the world as a place where people have done evil things. There are people in the world, for instance, that would describe Americans as evil.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  People, Evil, Done

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor!

  Sam Keen

  People, Fleeting, May

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• I quit because that thing inside of me that was driving me to drink that way was causing me so much pain that I was starting to get afraid for my own life, and my own health. It wasn't necessarily one instance. It was a lot that had piled up.

  Joe Manganiello

  Pain, Way, Driving

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people who come up to me and start talking about writing, when I start talking to them about the "Fantastic Four," they look at me aghast. They say, "'The Fantastic Four?' That's not literature." I say, "Yeah, but it was when I was 11 years old." This was literature.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Writing, Talking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

  Alan Bennett

  Lines, Born, Guinness

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it. We didn't have to do any alterations for Broadway. I was supposed to go a fortnight before it opened to alter anything that was necessary and there was nothing really.

  Alan Bennett

  Broadway, Film, Made

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• They [rulers] must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in proceeds without mercy to cut, saw, and burn flesh, veins, bone, and marrow. Such a procedure must also be followed in this instance. Burn down their synagogues, forbid all that I enumerated earlier, force them to work, and deal harshly with them, as Moses did... If this does not help we must drive them out like mad dogs.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Cutting, Mad

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• The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of which is that the working people perish in old age and the employer abounds in affluence.

  Thomas Paine

  People, Age, Littles

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• All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.

  Victor Papanek

  Country, Thinking, People

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• Smoking pot makes people talk for long periods of time, for instance, so people who advocate pot won't shut the hell up about it.

  Doug Benson

  Long, People, Smoking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's something that I know how to do because I taught for a very long time, so I can do it, and I feel a responsibility to do it - for instance, in this situation, where I'm touring specifically for this period of time. But most writers are not public people. There are a few writers out there who really enjoy it and are good at it, and can both work and do that at the same time, but I'm not one of those people.

  Alice Sebold

  Responsibility, Long, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Dream, Memories, Mind

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required.

  Fred Ritchin

  Skills, Different, Makers

  "Can Photojournalism Survive in the Instagram Era?". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2013.

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• It`s always been the same for me. I`ve always enjoyed acting, and I really love good actors; they`re such unique characters. I wish I could tell stories well, or tell a joke. Any time someone can do that it`s so satisfying. Sean Penn, for instance, is a really good actor, and he can tell a good joke or story. But it`s hard to do. Most actors have special talents that make them attractive, but they`re often odd characters.

  Val Kilmer

  Character, Unique, Acting

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• Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff.

  Julia Child

  Giving Up, Mean, Years

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• No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of power that the truly powerful are, in the first instance, truly powerful . . .

  C. Wright Mills

  Powerful, Mean, Firsts

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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• Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring life. A quiet, boring life so no one wants to write a biography. I'm the only writer in history only to have one wife, for instance.

  T.C. Boyle

  Writing, Wife, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I draw the line at some things. Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.

  Robert Crumb

  Couple, Special, Lines

  "R. Crumb on Album Covers, Charlie Patton 78s, and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November 7, 2011.

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• There were a couple of instances where what I'm thinking during sex was relevant, so I might as well show myself having sex. I could have gone from a shot of the bed to just showing the ceiling and my thought bubble. Or maybe just show the feet.

  Chester Brown

  Sex, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We're living in what used to be Mexico, and there's this very fluid border feeling. You go a little bit south of Tijuana, for instance, into Ensenada, and it still seems kind of borderlike. And you go much farther, suddenly the prices are lower, the prostitution is different, the commerce is different, everything feels more "Mexican."

  William T. Vollmann

  Mexican, Feelings, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There are parts of L.A. that feel very, very Mexican, and there are weird little enclaves of Northside in Mexico - Cancún for instance. So what is a border?

  William T. Vollmann

  Mexican, Borders, Mexico

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• You could imagine writing about a prostitute, for instance, but if you haven't spent time with prostitutes then you're going to get all these details wrong. But if you have a lot of sex with prostitutes and you're friends with prostitutes and you interview prostitutes, then maybe after many, many years you might be able to create prostitute characters.

  William T. Vollmann

  Sex, Writing, Character

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.

  Franklin Foer

  Thinking, Hands, Islam

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees and saying, "I know what I want. I know what I think." And then suddenly at 11 or 12, the gender role takes hold, and adults tell us, "How clever of you to know what time it is." It happens to boys, too and even sooner - between five and eight. Before that, boys cry and express uncertainty.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Clever, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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