Like You Quotes - Page 30

• There were lots of nightly relationships. But the reason you don't want to make a commitment is not that you're such a freewheeling, adventurous person, it's because you're scared shitless that it will turn out like your mother and father.

  David Bowie

  Mother, Father, Commitment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You try to find the internal life, but a lot of it is creating it through physical behavior and figuring out the voice when you create as much of a past as you would in a naturalistic piece. But it's fun, because it's like you're learning something, learning some kind of physical skill.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Fun, Past, Trying

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Writing a story starts out as a puzzle in your mind, of "What is it I'm fantasizing about right now that makes me think this is going to be worth years of work?" And you just keep pushing and trying to figure it out, and once you've hit on these resonances... Then as a screenwriter, it can be dangerous if you get too hooked on just finding things that resonate with each other, because then you risk getting into stuff that's too neat, and becomes stifled as storytelling. But you do feel like you're on the right track when you start to have a sense of what goes with what.

  Andrew Bujalski

  Writing, Thinking, Track

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel is like entering a new culture. You don't know what the hell is going on. And every day you feel like you have nothing, you're going nowhere. Or you feel that first it's going somewhere, but then you get into that horrible middle part.

  Lily King

  Writing, Culture, Hell

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm the guy that no one knows, but everyone's like, "You're that guy in that film thing."

  Ken Jeong

  Guy, Film

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I buried myself so much in the classics that I felt, "Well now, I've played all the big parts, whether badly or goodly, I don't give a damn, but at least I've played them all. Now, let's start again. Let's start the whole career again." And it makes you feel like you're beginning again, it really does.

  Christopher Plummer

  Giving, Begin Again

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• A director once told me, "You need to act like you're on mute and speak as though the viewer is in the other room doing the dishes." You become a part of the house. We can make fun of telenovelas, but not to the point where we're mocking them.

  Genesis Rodriguez

  Fun, House, Speak

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.

  Molly Antopol

  Character, Empathy, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The desire to be liked is acceptable in real life but very problematic in fiction. Pleasantness is the enemy of good fiction. I try to write on the premise that no one is going to read my work. Because there's this terrible impulse to grovel before the reader, to make them like you, to write with the reader in mind in that way. It prevents you doing work that is ugly or upsetting or difficult. The temptation is to not be true to what you want to write and to be considerate or amusing instead. I'm always trying to fight against the impulse to make my readers like me.

  Katie Kitamura

  Real, Writing, Fighting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I was in my early twenties, I fell in love at least 20 times a day. You have to be with someone where you think: if the world was full of people like you, I could not be monogamous. As you get older, you get to know yourself a little more. The older you get, the more you realize what you need. And you also realize how your choice in relationships is influenced by how you grew up. Now I feel like I've explored the dynamic of how I grew up, and I'm free to find someone who's really going to be a wonderful companion.

  Simon Van Booy

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For someone like you who's a British citizen this might seem strange. How can you ban a language? It turns out that you can. During the dictatorship it was illegal to speak Catalan. This is an experience that we Catalans have all had to varying extents. Some more tense than others, but it's something we all share.

  Jaume Cabre

  Strange, Language, Speak

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Moving, Thinking, Creation

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I've honestly always been an overly analytical, highly observant person. I was playing music but thinking about it at same time, which was sort of exhausting. Aside from the pain of writing - you're not really in a gang like you are in band, it's a little bit lonelier - I think it was always something that I'd wanted to do. So the transition wasn't abrupt or painful.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Pain, Writing, Thinking

  "15 Minutes With Carrie Brownstein". Interview With Nikki Gloudeman, www.motherjones.com. March 22, 2010.

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• I find myself acting for an editor more, because there's a quick turnaround with television, so you want to try and seem like you're as frenetic as possible, while replicating your movement so you're giving the editor more opportunity to cut within the different takes. If you're so crazy that you're sitting in one take and standing in another, the editor can only choose one take or the other. But if you can wrangle yourself into the same spot over and over, then you give them more choices for you.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Crazy, Cutting, Opportunity

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• I felt that, as time went on, an audience gets to know you and in a weird way, you kind of feel like you get to know the audience a little bit. When I'm doing stand-up gigs now, I feel like I'm doing gigs in front of people I know. I think that's the result of doing late-night shows for so long.

  Craig Ferguson

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Everyone knows the idea of moving to another country is really hard, but when you're actually in the situation - and you don't know the language and you don't know anyone - it's like you don't even know what questions to ask.

  Lotic

  Country, Moving, Language

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We on the internet. That's such a small community. We think we're so huge. If you went up to people on the street and asked them about it, they'd probably be like, "You had a album coming out?" Let alone it leaked.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, People, Community

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• One of the surprises of being a grown-up is embracing the fact that you see your friends when you are both available. It's not like you hang out all the time.... It's just the reality.

  Anna Kendrick

  Reality, Surprise, Hanging Out

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.

  Anna Kendrick

  Character, Trying, Sometimes

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My mom is 70, and she's still wearing the things she wore in the 80s. I appreciate people like that, who know who they are and what they like to wear - and have fun with it. Like, you can see that they enjoy expressing themselves.

  Kate Hudson

  Mom, Fun, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I cherish my clothes and I remember what seasons they're from. But someone said to me as I was having trouble with styling a dress that I had bought, and he said to me: "Throw it on the floor." And I was like, "What? It's like a gown." He goes, "Throw it on the floor," and I did, and he's like that's how you need to wear everything. You wear clothes like you throw them on the floor.

  Kate Hudson

  Remember, Trouble, Cherish

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Just because you're wearing something that's like a gown or what have you, you should wear it like you can take your shoes off and put your feet up and what I realized is that most people I love fashion-wise, they wear clothes like that. An ease to it. I thought that was a nice tool.

  Kate Hudson

  Nice, People, I Realized

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I don't use "feelings" as a diminutive word. I'm trying to take feelings back. I think of everyone on the internet whose response to everything is: "#Feelings! This is important, this is real, this is significant!" That connects to power, too. Wanting to feel like you have power and control over your life.

  Melissa Gira Grant

  Real, Thinking, Over You

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think if you feel weird and self-conscious about that kind of stuff - which happened to me at some points - that means your ego is really kicking in. You can understand how people get to be assholes in music business because it's like you're getting pumped full of your own thing so much, you get ungrounded. That's a dangerous place to be.

  Justin Vernon

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You ought not to accept the claim that this is a religious practice. I think that's, frankly, problematic for Islam, for well-intentioned Liberals like you to say that this is a religious practice when the overwhelming consensus of Islamic scholars around the world, and the overwhelming majority of Canadian Muslims, believe this has absolutely - that the niqab as face covering, that this symbol of misogyny has nothing to do with Islam.

  Jason Kenney

  Religious, Believe, Islamic

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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