Not Sure Quotes - Page 27

• Well, there are certainly original things to say. But I'm not sure that a pop song is the appropriate format to say them in.

  Stephin Merritt

  Song, Pop Song

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Well, hardcore is so much about the body, in that you have to play as fast as possible. I'm not sure it can be ironized. You can't play faster, though I suppose that with the help of electronics you could play faster. Yeah, if you sped it up, that could ironize it.

  Stephin Merritt

  Helping, Hardcore

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It can be nerve wracking if you walk into the interview and you're not sure what to expect.

  Anthony DeCurtis

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not sure, however, that what I have amounts to faith in the sense commonly understood. I have difficulty understanding the function of the word "believe" in the realm of faith, a basic term in the grammar of every creed.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Believe, Understanding, Difficulty

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The mathematics is the odd one, odd because I'm not sure how to measure its effect. It is so fundamental to my outlook on everything and yet I'm not even sure how. It must be because in my formative years it was everything to me, the single place of beauty in my life, and of breathtaking beauty at that. I still believe that pure mathematics is the most creative thing that humanity does, though I am no longer a part of it.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Believe, Creative, Humanity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The fact is that in England so many of our politicians are career politicians - they've always been politicians since they left their education. And in the old days of course politicians used to be fish mongers or doctors or whatever. They'd lived life. These days, power seems to go to the hands of people that that's all they've done. And I'm not sure that's a good thing, because it does remove them from the realities of life.

  Jeremy Irons

  Reality, People, Done

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We create these walls between fact and fiction, but often the difference between the two is as little as that between a real name and a pseudonym. So I'm not sure about those walls - certainly not in the realm of visual arts.

  Stuart Franklin

  Art, Wall, Real

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life - work, the marketplace, brutality, race - I'm not sure I have enough of a sense in aggregate of what the dominant novelists are doing to comment on why less do, or if less do. Maybe that's partly because I don't feel woven into any kind of fabric of contemporaries; I just read what I read, and do what I do.

  Rachel Kushner

  Reality, Kind, Modern

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think of myself as a narrative artist. I don't think of myself as a novelist or screenwriter or playwright. All of those modalities of processing and experiencing narrative are obviously very different, and I'm not sure that I prefer any one to the other. I think the novel gives you the opportunity to have a kind of interiority that you can't have in the theater, which is pure exteriority.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Artist, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm an indulgent writer - I'm not sure, however, that's something I'm interested in changing. Writing should be indulgent: you should take big risks on the page, you should make big mistakes, you should be excessive at times. I let myself do as a writer what I probably would be less likely to allow as an editor.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Mistake, Writing, Risk

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'm not sure a person ever really reveals the whole of himsels or herself to another person, and I'm not sure we should. Or rather, just because you don't, it doesn't mean you can't have a meaningful relationship with another person. It's important to remember that this idea of confessing your most shameful, embarrassing stories and self to someone else as an expression of love and intimacy is a relatively recent phenomenon, and a new definition of what it means to be close to someone. After all, the self is by its nature secretive.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Meaningful, Important, Remember

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I don't think paintings of nude women represent all women, but at the same time, I can't fault artists for putting out what inspires and challenges them. But for me, I'm not sure it's necessary for our bodies to define us, especially now when there are so many examples of femininity, of womanhood.

  Issa Rae

  Artist, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't know if there's any formula. I'm not sure I believe in that, to be honest. I don't know if there's any rhyme or reason to music. Sometimes it hits and sometimes it doesn't, really.

  Paul Weller

  Believe, Honest, Sometimes

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• I'm not sure if it's because I'm older and I'm thinking about family more, but I'm trying to set up this thing where I can play in one city for a month, and then write music for a couple months, then play in another city for a month, write music for a month. Just so it's not these two schizophrenic, Jekyll and Hyde kind of things; you don't have to be this monster. You get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could've done that in the 90s, I would have.

  Bjork

  Song, Couple, Writing

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• The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity. How deep does New Age go? Has it come to terms with radical evil? More, I am not sure how much social conscience there is in New Age thinking.

  Huston Smith

  Optimistic, Thinking, Evil

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• I don't think any of us have the answers to everything. There's no human being on earth who fits that category. So why wouldn't you ask for help? Why wouldn't you run ideas by people that you respect? Too many young people cast around trying to figure out what the answer is themselves, because they're afraid to come back and say, "I'm not sure I understood you," or "Could you give me a little more information about what you need?" Just do that. It saves you time, it saves your boss's or mentor's time. And it's a great lesson to learn.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Thinking, Giving

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• I've seen it in so many talented young women who hold back because they're not sure that what they say will be smart enough. Or maybe they've said something in a prior meeting, and people acted like they hadn't said it, and that was crushing. Then we have all had the experience where 20 minutes later, a man says the same thing and everybody responds positively.... So don't take it personally. Take it seriously so that you understand it, and then try to devise techniques to overcome it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Crush, Smart, Men

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• I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, but I realized that in lobbying I could do things politically that were interesting to me and do some what I thought would be good. I'm not sure it all turned out like that, but at least that was some of the initial thinking.

  Jack Abramoff

  Thinking, Interesting, Lobbyists

  "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. April 3, 2012.

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• I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.

  Lynda Barry

  Gay, Men, Lucky

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• I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Soccer, Differences

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• Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Directors, Married, Underworld

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• I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

  Danny Boyle

  Guy, Being There, Rely

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• Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results we want - it's that we're not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated.

  Eli Broad

  School, Giving, United States

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• In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

  Tony Campolo

  Thinking, Abortion, Moral

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• What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Vision, Hollywood

  "Nick Cave: 'The greatest feat of artistic honesty would be to retire'". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2013.

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