Little Things Quotes - Page 24

• It isn't a hunch but the subconscious mind, which is the creative mind, at work. That is the mind which makes artists do things without their knowing how they came to do them. Perhaps with me it was the cumulative effect of a lot of little things individually insignificant but collectively powerful.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Powerful, Artist, Knowing

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• The more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized that I had my own little thing that I could do.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Littles, Singers, Obsessed

  Source: www.npr.org

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• For me, one of my favorite parts of stop motion is not even the animating or the writing, but actually building. I always say that my favorite stage is just fabrication. It's just sitting on a workbench, making a little thing out of clay or whatever. That just totally excites me.

  Kirsten Lepore

  Writing, Clay, Sitting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I feel like I have everything else as far as being creative and athletic. But it's the little things that's going to push me over, like ball-handling, passing, boxing out when I'm setting screens. Little things like that that you would overlook that can make me a complete player.

  Derrick Rose

  Player, Boxing, Creative

  Source: espn.go.com

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• One day, I was running to the river. Along the way there was the most exquisite butterfly, a tiny little thing, on the pavement. I kind of jumped over it. And then two days later I woke up in the middle of the night with a character running, jumping over butterflies on the streets of Nairobi. After that, I followed the story. The story wrote itself.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Running, Butterfly, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets.

  Dolly Parton

  Exercise, Shoes, Tennis

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• You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.

  J. B. Smoove

  Quests, Littles, World

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• Ever feel like killing somebody just to see if you could get away with it? Sure, you have. Everybody has little things that get on their nerves.

  John Waters

  Littles, Nerves, Killing

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• Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.

  Edward Norton

  Character, People, Actors

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

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• The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.

  Christian Louboutin

  Engineering, Support, Balance

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• I'm living the life that I wanted to live and I'm loving every little thing that I do. Fortunately, I have had a very, very charmed life. Wherever I've been, that's what I wanted to be doing, right then.

  Tarsem Singh

  Live Life, Littles, Charmed Life

  Source: collider.com

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• All the little things add up. Whether they were positive or negative, eventually you either see the amazing result or the biggest let down.

  Behdad Sami

  Negative, Add, Littles

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• Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.

  Shirley Temple

  Thinking, People, Shy

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• Be faithful in the little things.

  Mother Teresa

  Faithful, Littles, Being Faithful

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• I'm willing to write a check for $10,000 if someone can bring to me what I fell is ruining thousands of lives, destroying lives everyday. And I know that you know it's a little thing called Chupacabra.

  Dane Cook

  Writing, Everyday, Littles

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• There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Finishing, Littles, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.

  Queen Latifah

  Backyards, World, Littles

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• If you want to play a cool punk club, that's great - but punk clubs don't have any toilet seats. After a while, little things like that become big issues.

  Joe Casey

  Play, Issues, Toilet Seat

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If I'm alone in the car and I fart, I still laugh at it. It's the little things that keep us civilised.

  Dana Gould

  Laughing, Car, Littles

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• Exploring the different avenues and being open to synchronicity and crazy coincidences and little things happening is part of going on your journey to investigate - and the little jewels you might find along the way, my job is to bring those back home and put them on my album.

  Bat for Lashes

  Jobs, Crazy, Home

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial:
  both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to
  talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him
  during the trial.

  David Letterman

  Interesting, Annoyed, Would Be

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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• The hurdles have taught me that if you work really, really hard at perfecting the little things in your life, the big picture will come together.

  John Shaffer

  Track, Together, Littles

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• I always try to push myself, even more now because evidently I'm not doing something right. I'm trying to do the little things that count in practice to try and get my job back.

  Rajon Rondo

  Jobs, Practice, Trying

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• The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.

  Gayle Forman

  Littles, Sometimes, Significant Other

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.35, Penguin

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• Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Upset, Mind, Stressed

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