Picks Quotes - Page 39

• I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.

  Bo Derek

  Phones, Phone Calls, Middle

  Interview with Hayley Phelan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• 'How do you balance the creative with the biblical?' One could pick up the scripture and read it to oneself and you would be communing directly with that information. As soon as you go into film, as soon as there's a camera, and there's an angle, and there's lighting, and there's editing, you're into the adaptation.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Biblical, Editing, Creative

  "Joseph Fiennes on Risen and Retelling Jesus' "Unsettling" Story". Interview with Hannah Goodwyn, www1.cbn.com.

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• We know that he gave Aschenbach Mahler's first name, and also his facial features. So Visconti picks up on something interesting. That led me to think about ways of developing further the Aschenbach-Mahler connection.

  Philip Kitcher

  Thinking, Names, Interesting

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• You just pick up any paper, and it's always talking about, how are we going to overthrow Donald Trump? I'm representing a tremendous - I'm representing millions of people that have - really feel angry and disenfranchised. And these are great people. And they like me and I love them. And I'll tell you what. We're not being treated right.

  Donald Trump

  Talking, People, Paper

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I have been an underdog my whole life, both in life and in politics. We're going to do well. We're going to pick up a lot of delegates on Super Tuesday.

  Marco Rubio

  Tuesday, Underdog, Whole Life

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The various processes of belief acquisition which are native to a species include ones which may allow for the reliable pick-up of information, which, in turn, allows individual members of the species to successfully negotiate their environment and satisfy their various desires.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Desire, Acquisition, May

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators who read all the drafts with no names attached and then allocate credit.

  Harold Ramis

  Writing, Names, Challenges

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Picking on another person in their mind justifies and makes their stature higher. People do it interracially. It's amazing how every race, every culture seems to have a culture they pick on.

  Rib Hillis

  Race, People, Mind

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• A better thing to grow up with is to be funny I think, and if I had, if I had my choice I would still pick that.

  Joy Behar

  Growing Up, Thinking, Choices

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• It's very hard to be an artist, on my first album, and I'm like asking for money for a music video for every song - it's so hard to do. You have to pick your battles for sure, but I definitely want - and I've always worked to make it all connect - for all of it to feel cohesive.

  Melanie Martinez

  Song, Artist, Battle

  "Interview: Melanie Martinez on her debut album, 'Cry Baby'". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I like so many different genres of music that I guess it would be hard for me to pick one person who inspires me when so many people inspire me to make good music.

  Rahki

  People, Inspire, Different

  Interview with Brian Hughes Kasoro, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.

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• You don't expect a 94-year-old white guy to pick "Dope," which was an awesome movie not even close to being considered by the Academy. And that's what it's all about, like, promoting people who might not otherwise get promoted and celebrating people who might not get celebrated.

  Russell Simmons

  Dope, Years, White

  "Russell Simmons Has Your Oscars Alternative". "All Things Considered" with Eric Westervelt, www.npr.org. February 28, 2016.

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• I think you have to pick and choose what is most important to tell the story.

  Patrick Wilson

  Thinking, Important, Stories

  "The Conjuring 2 Set Interview: Patrick Wilson Teases 'A Different Beast'". Interview with Sasha Capelli, screenrant.com. March 1, 2016.

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• If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.

  William Fitzsimmons

  Guitar, Feelings, Musical

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• I love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid. I guess I never stayed in one place long enough to pick up the accent, but I definitely identify as a Southerner.

  Chris Hardwick

  Kids, Long, Memphis

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• These two guys [Donald Trump and Chris Christie] kinds find each other. They love each other. They were playing let`s spend the night together when I turned the TV in the hotel today. I was like oh, my goodness.But it`s like the worst buddy movie. They degrade women. They steal candy from orphans. They mock the disabled. They pick on teachers. It`s frightening to watch.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Teacher, Night, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I don't think you're going to have one bank. Big companies aren't going to give us all their business. So they can pick and choose - by product, by country, whatever. We have major competition across every product in every place we operate.

  Jamie Dimon

  Country, Thinking, Giving

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• The first thing we do is sit around a table and discuss what we could pick up from daily life, from space. That's how it starts, completely abstract. There's no kind of, "Oh, let's do Peru," or "Let's do pleats," you know?

  Rei Kawakubo

  Space, Tables, Firsts

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I just stopped reading a lot of books. I mean, I read books that I have to read for school, but I don't actually pick up a book and read for fun. On my time off, I go to movies, hang out with friends, go shopping...just little things.

  Mark Indelicato

  Fun, Reading, Book

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I love the fact that we've made a film that not only the whole family can go to and enjoy but, you know, it's actually having an effect. You know, Rey's character is a tough woman who your 6-year-old can pick up a lightsaber now and go for it.

  Maryann Brandon

  Character, Years, Facts

  "'Star Wars' Editors Defy Hollywood Conventions". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 13, 2016.

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• Earl Scruggs wears two finger picks and a thumb pick, and by alternating them, he can play about as fast as he wants. So it's this action. You know, you couldn't move one finger that fast, but all three, it's pretty easy, and it's kind of an incredible leap.

  Earl Scruggs

  Moving, Play, Two

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• You can not make me pick between my roles! That is like making me pick between my children!

  Joshua Rush

  Children, Roles, Can Not

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• If a band isn't coming up with two to four of those when they pick up their instruments, then they have problems - even if none of them turn into a song. If that's not happening in a band, it's time for therapy or breaking up.

  Travis Morrison

  Song, Two, Band

  "The Dismemberment Plan". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2013.

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• I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.

  Richard Hell

  Writing, Plot, Fiction

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have this weird thing where all the artists that I find myself engaging with the most are the ones that I have a bone to pick with.

  Owen Pallett

  Artist, Bones, Weird Things

  Source: pitchfork.com

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