Isolated Quotes - Page 19

• In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.

  Jane Goodall

  Struggle, Years, People

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• My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.

  Joanne Harris

  Hero, Past, People

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• The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.

  Annie Lennox

  Isolation, Worst, Conditions

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  Damian Lewis

  Acting, Particular

  "Damian Lewis: Top of the cops". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.

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• For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.

  Hilary Mantel

  Running, Book, Together

  "The joys of stationery" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2010.

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• L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.

  Mike Mills

  Giving, Stuff, Way

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• Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

  Joni Mitchell

  Artist, Community, Feels

  "Joni on Point". Interview With Nic Harcourt, www.latimes.com. June 7, 2009.

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• I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Fall, Phones, Silence

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• One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Government, People, Care

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• Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Incidents, Comment, Happens

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.

  Sally Field

  Understanding, Way, Relate

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

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• What I feel now is connected to people. I feel connected and I feel a lot of love for people. I feel the possibility of what building social movements and what working together in struggle creates. Whatever that energy is, it feels a lot better than what I felt when I was younger - which was worthless and disconnected and isolated and alone.

  Eve Ensler

  Struggle, People, Working Together

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• We are all really alone. We're isolated in our own mind.

  Wayne Coyne

  Mind

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There's this overly friendly sense of community built up by very isolated people, and there's this Lutheran humbleness that keeps people from talking about their own feelings and asking about yours. What does that do in this modern age where everyone takes pictures of their food, and they share every thought they've ever had in real time?

  Noah Hawley

  Real, Talking, People

  "Noah Hawley on the Life Span of Fargo, Ewan McGregor's Dual Role, and Adapting Cat's Cradle". Interview with Gazelle Emami and Matt Zoller Seitz, www.vulture.com. June 23, 2016.

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• When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

  Zach Condon

  Cities

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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• I still visit my village quite often, as my parents and one of my sisters live there, but also I feel the village is more of an isolated, unreal part of me.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Parent, Village, My Sister

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.

  Mat McNerney

  Character, Thinking, Style

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• If you find yourself running away from something and then suddenly you're isolated in a vacuum, then you have to deal with all the inherent truths and learning things about yourself and the people that are around you.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Running, People, Finding Yourself

  "10 Cloverfield Lane: John Gallagher Jr. talks John Goodman and monsters". Interview with Emma Thrower, www.empireonline.com. March 10, 2016.

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• There's no such thing as success on an isolated level.

  Questlove

  Levels

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think there is a tendency for people to become more isolated as they move along a spiritual path. With more development, people get more isolated. Also, as they have more wealth, they get more isolated.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Spiritual, Moving, Thinking

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• I think often women can feel isolated and feel like they get into a rut and don't quite know how to get out of it.

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Ruts, Feels

  "Cate Blanchett Knows You're Zooming in on Her Pores and She's Cool with It". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.marieclaire.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Just the way LA is laid out - 30 miles of disparate neighborhoods - adds to the loneliness of the characters. There's a lot more space to feel isolated in. In Los Angeles, you have to meet the person, then walk out separately to your own cars, and follow the person to their neighborhood, and then pray that street parking isn't going to mess things up.

  Paul Rust

  Loneliness, Character, Space

  "Meet the Star of 'Love,' Judd Apatow’s New Netflix Series". Interview with Grace Wilson, www.motherjones.com. February 28, 2016.

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• When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

  Patricia Churchland

  Facts, Theory, Known

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• In many inner cities, there are issues of less economic stability, poorer education, community centers being stripped away, arts being removed from the school system leaving many children imbalanced, isolated from their most powerful self... the independent thinker, the creator, the dreamer often leaving children more susceptible to other harmful things out of boredom or feelings of rejection.

  Mya

  Art, Children, Powerful

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

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• I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do.

  Margaret Cho

  Kids, Responsibility, Thinking

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