Plastic Quotes - Page 17

• It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there was a little phantom version of you sitting on your shoulder with a notebook going, I can use this. OK, look at the way that the light is glinting off the broken plastic on the road next to the blood. You can use this. And it was always a very strange feeling.

  Neil Gaiman

  Notebook, Light, Blood

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every dent, every drooping slice of chrome, has a story behind it.

  Jim Atkinson

  Years, Car, Rolling

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• Comparing filmmaking to a plastic model, shooting is the process where you mold and color each piece, and editing is where you build a finished whole from the pieces you molded and colored. Obviously, the latter is the most enjoyable part in the making of plastic models, so editing is the process in filmmaking I enjoy the most. But at the same time, editing can be a painstaking task, too.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Editing, Color, Mold

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, People, Denial

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• Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells

  Allen Ginsberg

  Men, Cells, Whales

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• One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.

  Philip Yancey

  Lying, Biblical, Giving

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• I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards.

  Henny Youngman

  Cutting, Credit, Lasts

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• In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. The living room rug was frequently littered with hundreds of metal “girders” and tiny nuts and bolts surrounding half-finished structures. An understanding mother allowed me to keep the projects going for days on end.

  Steven Chu

  Summer, Mother, Moving

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• a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he hasn't got any money: he doesn't need any money, all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this.

  Jack Kerouac

  Disappointment, Drinking, Years

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.77, Penguin

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• Jenks enthusiastically leaned against the counter and opened the box. Bypassing the plastic knife, he broke off about a third of it and took a huge bite. Ivy watched, appalled, and I shrugged. His mouth moving as he hummed, Jenks finished unpacking the sacks. I was half dead, Ivy was whoring herself to keep me safe, but Jenks was okay as long as he had chocolate.

  Kim Harrison

  Moving, Knives, Ivy

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• Why are you still wearing...?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?" David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly...Tally might eat you.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Smart, Eye, Use

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Extras”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.

  Roseanne Barr

  Notebook, Girl, Wall

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• We do have a big kind of history in literate tradition of Vikings and we have a lot of Viking blood in Scotland, I mean especially up north wherever you go you see a plastic Viking sitting outside a shop and Viking calendars and - because they - you know they came down and stole all our chicks and then some of them didn't quite get back and ended up settling down here. So there's a lot of Viking blood in Scotland.

  Craig Ferguson

  Mean, Blood, Up North

  "Hot Scots Craig Ferguson and Gerard Butler join comedic forces in DreamWorks 'How To Train Your Dragon'". Chicago Parent Interview, www.chicagoparent.com. November 23, 2010.

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• The first scene I ever appeared in, it was the first scene I ever shot [during my] first day on set. I walk up to my mom with a plastic bag over my head and she says that her clothes better not be on the floor, not that a plastic bag is not a safety hazard or anything. I think it's a really cute scene and also just a very vivid memory.

  Kiernan Shipka

  Cute, Mom, Memories

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.

  Lance Henriksen

  Distance, Kids, Grandparent

  Source: collider.com

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• Even though it's warm here in L.A., people still have to wear layers - at least until their plastic surgery heals.

  Craig Ferguson

  People, Layers, Heal

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• Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

  Andre Bazin

  Photography, Art, Obsession

  André Bazin (2004). “What Is Cinema?”, p.12, Univ of California Press

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• In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists going to be allowed to dig without consent into our genetic codes, then market them?

  Ellen Goodman

  Iron, Revolution, Steel

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• Look, it's very easy to sit here right now with some films in the bank that I like and think I have a shot and feel pretty cocky. But, you know, three years from now, I could very easily be saying, 'Paper or plastic?'

  George Clooney

  Cocky, Thinking, Years

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• I wouldn't want to play a normal princess who always walks around in nice dresses. I never had a connection to it when I was a child, I preferred playing with plastic soldiers.

  Kristen Stewart

  Children, Nice, Princess

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• I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Band, Genius, Months

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• We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.

  Marge Piercy

  Sex, School, Dumb

  Marge Piercy (2011). “Dance the Eagle to Sleep”, p.73, PM Press

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• I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.

  Sally Phillips

  Thinking, Ideas, Car

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• The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.

  Zoe Helene

  Ocean, Sea, Healthy

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• Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.

  Florence King

  Eye, Feds, Fragile

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