Like You Quotes - Page 39

• I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Writing, Trying

  "He Didn't Ask for All This". L.A. Times, May 1, 1994.

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• As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.

  Donatella Versace

  Believe, Trying, Routine

  "My List: Donatella Versace in 24 Hours". www.harpersbazaar.com. April 17, 2012.

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• When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

  Christopher Walken

  Kids, Thinking, Names

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• And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

  Rick Warren

  Forgiveness, Reality, People

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• So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

  Gerard Way

  Kids, People, Television

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• Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

  Rachel Weisz

  Romantic, Girl, Winning

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. April 22, 2003.

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• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in ­pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  Florence Welch

  Running, Dream, People

  "The unstoppable rise of Florence Welch". Interview with John Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2010.

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• I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.

  Joss Whedon

  Clever, Writing, Understanding

  "Joss Whedon on Comic Books, Abusing Language and the Joys of Genre". Interview with Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. May 3, 2012.

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• The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Stupid, Kids

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• A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.

  Kate Winslet

  Girl, Ideas, Anorexia

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• Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

  Rob Zombie

  People, Expectations, Backfire

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2005.

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• The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

  Rob Zombie

  People, Zombie, Want

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• It used to be the case, like, you'd switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job. Just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Jobs, Old Job, People

  "A young Mark Zuckerberg's early mistake". "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. April 10, 2018.

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• Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.

  Felicia Day

  Years, Missing, Festivals

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

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• Men couldn't care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you more with some wildness or bedhead, since it shows you're carefree and relaxed.

  Helen Fisher

  Men, Care, Might

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• Hair that looks like it's been naturally sun-bleached makes you seem youthful, like you spend a lot of time outdoors. And that appeals to most people.

  Helen Fisher

  Hair, People, Looks

  "Summer Looks Guys Will Go Gaga For". The Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. July 11, 2005.

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• I think because we're ourselves, we tend to think we're unique. 'I have problems that are just specific to me.' Then you connect with one of your parents and you realize, 'Oh yeah, we had all that stuff, too.' You're not that original. I mean, in a good way, because it makes you feel like you're connected and a part of the world and not an island.

  Chris Hardwick

  Mean, Unique, Thinking

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2013.

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• I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

  Jan Karon

  Forgiving, Enemy, Done

  Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: Novels Six Through Nine; Plus a Father Tim Novel”, p.1578, Penguin

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• I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.

  Bill Watterson

  People, Wish, Lucky

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Comic strip by Bill Watterson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 1985 – December 31, 1995.

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• Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.

  Erma Bombeck

  Worry

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• I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She reminded me that the world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Thinking, Long, Bees

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.92, Penguin

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• I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something.

  Tony Kushner

  Country, Hate, Crazy

  "Angels in America". Book by Tony Kushner, May, 1991.

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• No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Writing, Dark, Hair

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• Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this to them over and over, and they will doggedly reassemble because, like you and me and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be.

  Bill Bryson

  Cells, Together, Way

  "A Short History of Nearly Everything". Book by Bill Bryson, 2003.

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• and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,"look, look at this!" but they don't understand, they say something like,"you say you've been influenced by Celine?" no," I hold the cat up,"by what happens, by things like this, by this, by this!

  Charles Bukowski

  Cat, Drunk, Looks

  Charles Bukowski, “The History Of One Tough Motherfucker”

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