Odd Quotes - Page 38

• Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.

  Masiela Lusha

  Writing, Together, Stitches

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.

  Ryan Tedder

  Writing, People, Albums

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• As far as this categorization of books, the way I see it is there are really a hundred-odd categories of books plus one, and on the top shelf at home, I've got the books I love, my favorite books, and that's the type of book that I want to write.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Home, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It seems odd, but people who see my films normally take them in in a deeper way than you would actually watch a film, let's say The Terminator or whatever.

  Werner Herzog

  People, Watches, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In an odd way, Donald Trump and maybe Brexit is gonna be great for inspiring a new wave of socially conscious political music.

  Moby

  Political, Way, Wave

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Attitude, Men, Odd Man

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• The boys have been running Washington for a long-ass time. We're talking 200-some-odd years.

  Alison Pill

  Running, Boys, Years

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I really enjoyed Eddie Bracken. He told me a great story. He did The Odd Couple on Broadway, replacing Art Carney, and he said, "Art Carney did it for six months and I did it for three years, and I don't think anyone I've ever spoken to saw me. They all saw Art Carney."

  Brent Spiner

  Art, Couple, Thinking

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• We all take Mother's Day seriously and then it's like a month later, a bunch of kids get together and say, "I guess we should do this for the old man, too." Father Day's is weird. It's like celebrating Darth Vader's birthday. It's odd I think. Even the gifts we give dads. Like neckties, which are just like a silk noose. Or books. Would you ever want someone from another generation to give you a book?

  Jim Gaffigan

  Dad, Father, Book

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think I've yet to do the big heave is because New York editors tend to think D.C. guys like me want to do political stories. And I hate politics for its own sake. Politics are so... I don't know, political. Which is an odd thing for a guy to say, I suppose, who has worked at a political magazine for fourteen years.

  Matt Labash

  Hate, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I like films about people who figured out what they believed and had the guts to act on it in a way that added value to others. So, there are lots of movies that have characters who did that. I'll pick an odd one - Stranger Than Fiction because I really liked the movie - particularly the offbeat cookie maker. You'll have to see the movie to see what I mean. The movie also reinforces that you can be the author of your own script.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Character, Mean, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• People have to follow their own strangeness. The minute they start making their own vision of the world flattened out so everyone can read it, they lose. I encourage people to be as awkward and odd on the page to capture their own way of seeing the world and not trying to see the world for other people.

  Peter Orner

  People, Awkward, Vision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always been "other." I've always felt odd; I have always felt foreign in the environment I've been in. When you are young, that is a really uncomfortable thing to feel. As an older woman I really embrace it.

  Alison Moyet

  Environment, Embrace, Uncomfortable

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Jealous, People, Sometimes

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I think now it's a very odd time in politics. It should be mostly about good governing. We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.

  Daphne Guinness

  Past, Thinking, Helping

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guess I've been blessed with insomnia because I do a lot of my writing at night. Because I don't sleep as much as I probably should, I have that extra time to write weird stories and think odd thoughts.

  Dan Chaon

  Blessed, Writing, Sleep

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As I get older I find myself thinking about stories more and more before I work so that by the time I eventually sit down to write them, I know more or less how it's going to look, start or feel. Once I do actually set pencil to paper, though, everything changes and I end up erasing, redrawing and rewriting more than I keep. Once a picture is on the page I think of about ten things that never would have occurred to me otherwise. Then when I think of the strip at other odd times during the day, it's a completely different thing than it was before I started.

  Chris Ware

  Writing, Thinking, Different

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• In an odd way I thought I was lowering the bar for myself, in saying, well, I'll make a pop album. But in a way it's kind of harder to make pop music. It's like the more abstract you get with music, you get into that emperor's new clothes thing, where you can go anywhere, and just claim that your audience may not be prepared to go with you. But with pop music, I think everybody understands the form, everybody knows what it's meant to do. So I would say it's harder to write that kind of music.

  Jason Pierce

  Writing, Thinking, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Luckily, my limited attention span is well suited to the velocity of the news cycles. There's an assault of stories coming at you on even a slow-ish news day, but certain things just tend to stick out. Certain stories just seem to have an odd sort of electricity. It does get tricky when you're pitching an image that won't hit the newsstands for another week. Not only can other, bigger stories break in the mean time, but other daily cartoonists, can also come up with the same idea - this is the most depressing thing - and put it out there so yours looks old by the time it's published.

  Barry Blitt

  Depressing, Mean, Attention

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Fred Silverman, the head of ABC, he offered me a lot of comedy series but I told him I'd already been the best comedy series around, "The Odd Couple," and so when he saw that I did Quincy he called my agent and said, Jack turns me down? All my good series and he ends up playing an undertaker." And this was the HEAD of ABC series.

  Jack Klugman

  Couple, Comedy, Undertaker

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• At the end of any of my project I miss the material. I pick subjects I love and then get very engaged with them, so stopping that engagement often feels odd and arbitrary, but there's a moment when I don't want to change anything else and when the shape and length feels right. At that point, continuing would be destructive.

  Cole Swensen

  Missing, Moments

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I read more books than you can imagine on all sorts of odd topics, which is something that I love.

  Scott Hutchins

  Book, Imagine

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The truth is that seals look more like dogs. And I'm surrounded by seals because I live by the sea. They're odd bloody creatures. Not fish, they don't have gills, they should have legs, but they don't. They're the weirdest things, you know?

  Neil Jordan

  Dog, Truth Is, Live By

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I'm trying to find a way to make music work as a living. People used to make their living selling albums. Those days are over! It's kind of an odd time. I guess it's kind of like writing.

  Tim Hecker

  Writing, People, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My work is never just fashion, landscape, or portraiture; it's always kind of an odd mixture of everything. I like muddling it together.

  Erik Madigan Heck

  Fashion, Together, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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