Layers Quotes - Page 21

• There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it.

  Clive Owen

  Drama, Character, Play

  "He's a bit of an idiot but I did like him" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2006.

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• The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!

  Vera Wang

  Funny, Girl, Beach

  "Vera Wang, 62, Poses For Swimsuit Photo Shoot". www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 23, 2012.

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• If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers.

  Leonardo Drew

  Canyons, Grand Canyon, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.

  Paul Weller

  Just Being, One Thing

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• Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it? It lives on in Fantastica, deep under earth. There are forgotten dreams stored in many layers. The deeper one digs, the closer they are. All Fantastica rests on a foundation of forgotten dreams.

  Michael Ende

  Dream, Earth, Foundation

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• The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nonetheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Events, Alive, Matter

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.217, Vintage

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• The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are persons of any kind When all there can be is mindless mirrors Laughing and screaming as they parade about in an endless dream

  Thomas Ligotti

  Dream, Mirrors, Wind

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• You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.

  Craig Thompson

  Soul, Twenties, Knows

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• In my darkest night, when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voice directed me: "Live in the layers, not on the litter." Though I lack the art to decipher it, no doubt the next chapter in my book of transformations is already written. I am not done with my changes.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Art, Book, Moon

  "The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (The Layers)". Book by Stanley Kunitz, 1978.

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• When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assult of a million flurocarbon spray cans of deoderant." - The Mist

  Stephen King

  Technology, Night, Ozone

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• Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.

  Janet Fitch

  Darkness, Feels, Universe

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• Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey." When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Coffee, Black, Watches

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.143, Scholastic UK

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• The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get rid of it. Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure. Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Differences, Friendly, Earth

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

  Alice Sebold

  Ignorant, Time And Change, Damage

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• I like to layer when I fly - the climate always changes from the airport to the plane to the new city.

  Shay Mitchell

  Airports, Cities, Climate

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• When I'm at craft services, I make the best-tasting,10-layer meat and cheese sandwich with no bread.

  Kellan Lutz

  Cheese Sandwiches, Meat, Crafts

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• I always forbade everyone to clean my studios, dust them, not only for fear they would disturb my things, but especially because I always counted on the protection of dust. It's my ally. I always let it settle where it likes. It's like a layer of protection.

  Pablo Picasso

  Dust, Allies, Likes

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction, the masterful work of the DP [Director of Photography] Kevin McKnight and his crew, and the layers and depths each actor goes to to ensure we the audience feel a human connection to these characters led me to sign my name on the dotted line.

  Aisha Hinds

  Photography, Character, Writing

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don't know where the next meal is coming from. It is not a big barrier of taking the rich with the poor in a big society to provide schooling for all.

  Amartya Sen

  Meals, Next, Poverty

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.

  Linus Torvalds

  Want, Program, Application

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• Fragrance is the first layer of dressing, a woman's invisible body suit.

  Donna Karan

  Body, Firsts, Suits

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• I think there's grays in characters if you look at all the great characters, those characters that have those layers of being good and being bad and what's the struggle. It's always more interesting to watch.

  Jamie Foxx

  Struggle, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Father-daughter has a lot of layers, I find.

  Maren Ade

  Daughter, Father, Daughter To Father

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Character, Thinking, Tv Shows

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• There are a lot of layers in the film [Dream of Life]. And during editing we would try to tame all the layers, try to make things a little bit more understood. We would move scenes around. We'd try all these things.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Moving, Editing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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