Paper Quotes - Page 15

• Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine, feminine, and neuter. So if you have a genitive present, there's room for everybody to fit in. I just did a project in Vienna about rock, paper, scissor; you change the gender and it simply changes the whole thing. Rock is no longer a male. It doesn't function the same way.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Mean, Rocks, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.

  Robert Longo

  Jealous, Drawing, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Cincinnati at that time was also beginning to realize it had major cartooning talent in Jim Borgman, at the city's other paper, and I didn't benefit from the comparison.His footsteps seemed like good ones to follow, so I cultivated an interest in politics, and Borgman helped me a lot in learning how to construct an editorial cartoon. Neither of us dreamed I'd end up in the same town on the opposite paper.

  Bill Watterson

  Opposites, Cities, Cartoon

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• I think the experience forced me to consider how interested I was in political cartooning. After I was fired, I applied to other papers but political cartooning, like all cartooning, is a very tough field to break into. Newspapers are very reluctant to hire their own cartoonists when they can get Oliphant or MacNelly through syndication for a twentieth of the price.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Political, Fields

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• I wasn't having any luck getting accepted anyway and it forced me to re-examine what it was that I really wanted to do. In my experience in political cartooning, I was never one of those people who read the headlines and foams at the mouth with rabid opinion that I've just got to get down on paper.

  Bill Watterson

  People, Political, Luck

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

  Bill Watterson

  Standards, Higher, Measuring

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, "Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy."

  Bill Watterson

  Art, Writing, People

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Thinking, Night, Machines

  "Karl Lagerfeld on His Mother, €3 Million Cat, and Being a ‘Fashion Vampire’". Interview with Amy Larocca, www.thecut.com. March 31, 2015.

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• Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do it. If I'm not pregnant with words and I'm not in labor with them, I don't even try to bring them forth because they won't be any good anyway. Once I'm ready to deliver, it's like being pregnant. I've got to find a typewriter or a piece of paper. The only words that have ever had any possible value to others seem to have been those words that just had to come out.

  Marianne Williamson

  Writing, Typewriters, Everyday

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I learned to read? It was before I went to school, so I would go to the library and just take things off the shelf. My mother had to sign a piece of paper saying I could take adult books.

  Joan Didion

  Mother, Book, School

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• Money numbs your senses. People who touched paper money and then placed their hands in hot burning water didn't feel as much pain as those who hadn't touched money.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Pain, Hands, People

  Source: www.choprafoundation.org

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• Unsuccessful people get up whenever they feel like it and the first thing they do is watch television, read the paper, or check email. The rest of the day is pretty much 50% below maximum performance.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Email, Watches

  Source: www.webpagefx.com

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• I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size with lines of a particular distance apart and with two holes in the paper for the folder clip.

  Philip Pullman

  Distance, Two, Example

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me.

  Sally Potter

  Writing, Hands, Solitude

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are being obstructionist for wanting to see documents, for wanting to see a paper trail, for wanting to get questions answered in the judiciary committee hearings, and now all of a sudden, the Republicans want those things for this.

  Rachel Maddow

  People, Insulting, Want

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When you're making a purchasing decision around an appliance or a car or a home, that's when to take the environment into mind, but don't dwell so much on paper versus plastic.

  Chip Giller

  Home, Car, Decision

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Environment, Proof, Work Environment

  Interview with Peter Andrey Smith, www.believermag.com. May 2012.

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• I like "Rock, Paper, Scissors Two-Thirds." You know. "Rock breaks scissors." "These scissors are bent. They're destroyed. I can't cut stuff. So I lose." "Scissors cuts paper." "These are strips. This is not even paper. It's gonna take me forever to put this back together." "Paper covers rock." "Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks." There should be "Rock, Dynamite with a Cutable Wick, Scissors."

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Book, Humor

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• This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me."

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Vines

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• Went to the paper shop - it had blown away.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Shops

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• I remember one time I went to a party and I had to interview Reese Witherspoon. She was just in this movie "Freeway," it's like 1996. To prepare for the interview I went to meet her at this release party, and I end up getting in this fist fight with a guy. I'm not much of a fighter but I get in this fight and the press was all there and they saw me, and all of a sudden the next day in the paper was 'Simon Rex and his posse get in scuffle, and Simon crashes a bottle over a guy's head after smoking crack in the bathroom.' I saved the article forever.

  Simon Rex

  Party, Fighting, Next Day

  "From 'Dirt Nasty' To Rex: An Uncensored Interview With Celeb-Skewering Simon Rex". Interview with Steve Krakauer, www.mediaite.com. July 13, 2009.

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• I enjoy creating and developing characters, as well as situations. But I have always had more ideas than I can ever put down on paper and fantasy allows me to include a lot of what I feel.

  Raymond Buckland

  Character, Ideas, Creating

  Source: paganpages.org

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• Still blows my mind that toilet paper isn't free.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Humor, Blow

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• I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.

  Kiki Dimoula

  Writing, Suffering, Facts

  Source: blog.yupnet.org

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