Picks Quotes - Page 36

• The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills.

  Bill Gates

  Writing, Skills, People

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• As a network, they're not the network that usually picks things up after the first episode airs. They definitely have a methodology that they follow. But they're very happy with the show [Into the Badlands]and they're very excited with how it's performed.

  Alfred Gough

  Air, Firsts, Excited

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• People tell me I'm a comedian, but I don't approach acting from that perspective. I do know that everything in life has to do with your timing and perception. You have to be comfortable with the rhythm that you're in. You can't just jump into a fast rhythm if yours is slow. You might have to pick up the pace but in your own particular way. It has to do with personality, too.

  Mike Tyson

  People, Perspective, Personality

  Source: aalbc.com

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• My pick for Best Political Move of the Year, which is the decisive (ph) and this means it is actually the best political movement is Bill Clinton getting on the phone and encouraging Donald Trump to run for the president.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Running, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an essay, a novel, a biography - and at one point you realize you don't know where, as a reader, you want to be. Where are you going with this text? What is the goal? How are you supposed to interpret what you're reading? And people's responses vary - some dislike it, and are put off by the confusion, the lack of comprehension.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Book, Reading, Goal

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As soon as I start to write I'm very aware, I'm trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick up this poem, a stranger. So when I'm writing - and I think that this is important for all writers - I'm trying to be a writer and a reader back and forth. I write two lines or three lines. I will immediately stop and turn into a reader instead of a writer, and I'll read those lines as if I had never seen them before and as if I had never written them.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Thinking, Two

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Baby, Character, Fighting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking more. Nostalgia is dangerous, though.

  Lauren Groff

  School, Talking, People

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• I worked in a paper mill all my adult life and there were a lot of funny guys there. So you pick up on that. Even though something really bad might have happened to somebody you can still make a joke out of it.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Guy, Adults, Paper

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We have to try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes. We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down. This life can be incredibly difficult, especially if we're alone. And if we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life.

  Joshua Radin

  Insecurity, Trying, World

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• Whenever I pick up a book I think, "Tell me something I don't know."

  Stef Penney

  Book, Thinking, Knows

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Some of them [family names] have sentimental value for some reason or another, some of them just sound beautiful. Some of them are because of people that are meaningful to us in our lives. So it's hard to say which one we'll pick. Sometimes they say you have to see the child before you decide. So maybe when we see her we'll make a last-second decision.

  John Legend

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Children

  "John Legend Has His Dad Jokes at the Ready". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. January 14, 2016.

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• It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes.

  Lily King

  Mistake, Rough Drafts, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I write first drafts feverishly fast, and then I spend years editing. It's not that sentence-by-sentence perfectionist technique some writers I admire use. I need to see the thing, in some form, and then work with it over and over and over until it makes sense to me - until its concerns approach me, until its themes come to my attention. At that editing stage, the story picks itself and it's just up to me to see it, to find it. If I've done a good job, what it all means will force me to confront it in further edits.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Jobs, Writing, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's always things from shooting a film that you pick up that hopefully make you better.

  F. Gary Gray

  Shooting, Film, Hopefully

  Source: collider.com

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• I would never talk to a girl in a bar, like a pick-up thing. But I could talk to anyone if they wore a t-shirt of a band I like.

  Craig Finn

  Girl, Bars, Band

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.

  Gary Cole

  Doors, Shopping, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that you should just be yourself and make sure you pick a really, really good song, and make sure you're memorable.

  Cher Lloyd

  Song, Being Yourself, Memorable

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• I like vinyl because it's not quite random access. You have to pick up the needle, flip the record. I do think that an 18-20 minute block of music is sacred, and I can see why it's catching on. I really don't know if it will stay, but it's such a bizarre world, I think it's possible.

  John Vanderslice

  Block, Thinking, Catching On

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think I'd like to be best friends with Björk, because I'd like to pick her brain a lot all the time and just have weird times together.

  Ellie Goulding

  Thinking, Brain, Together

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• When you teach, it's sometimes necessary to consciously not write for a month or two - and then pick a time in the future to sink back in. It makes you less frustrated and more in control. I do best when I give myself breaks and come back hungry.

  Tom Barbash

  Writing, Two, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To be able to let you know who someone is in just a couple of words, I'd have to pick the most pronounced features of a character's personality. And I always feel like I'm leaving out so many important little ones.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Couple, Character, Personality

  "New Again: Lisa Kudrow". Interview with Sara Switzer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.

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• I'm such a fan of anime and manga to this day, but I never really like got to know all the characters and everything, so I don't think I'd be able to pick one.

  Lights

  Character, Thinking, Anime

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• If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever.

  Sam Amidon

  Play, Fiddle, Ifs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the world likes to pick apart different songs and play doctor with songs sometimes and make them into this big controversial thing.

  Katy Perry

  Song, Thinking, Doctors

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