Playgrounds Quotes - Page 9

• My interest, perhaps, came out of the trauma of being a young immigrant in this country and constantly feeling my "resident alien" status. I remember trying to learn English on kindergarten playgrounds. I tried hard to be a convincing American but it was a losing battle. I was labeled weird and that tag never left me - all through high school, I was always the oddball. It was not always an easy path - I just had to tell myself that one day, being on the periphery would become an asset (and I think it finally has, as a creative adult).

  Porochista Khakpour

  Country, School, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content always lends itself to the form, and it's really not mathematics.

  Paul Dano

  Character, Ballet, Jazz

  Source: collider.com

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• When I did Nicholas Nickelby originally, that was a co-production between the new Channel 4, Polygram in Europe and Mobil Oil in America, and I have been involved in working on co-productions for years on both sides of the Atlantic and that's very much at the core of what Playground is doing. So marrying, finding projects that can be co-produced and can be produced using the very best talent from both sides of the Atlantic that's absolutely right at the center of what Playground is doing.

  Colin Callender

  Oil, America, Years

  Source: deadline.com

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• Well being in Kiss is having a more limited spectrum. It's a smaller playground to play in because there are limitations. I'm the big bad wolf and I'm supposed to do this and that. There are rules, which are self imposed I must say, but there are rules. We break enough of them, but the truth is that being Gene Simmons in an album called 'Asshole' forged me the opportunity of just recreating myself. Very much Jekyll and Hyde. Mr. Hyde is the big bad guy and Dr. Jekyll has studied and both are connected.

  Gene Simmons

  Kissing, Opportunity, Self

  Interview with Tim Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Investigation is a subtle process, requiring patience and fine analytical ability, as well as a skill in cultivating one's sources. When torture is condoned, these rare talented people leave the service, having been outstripped by less gifted colleagues with their quick-fix methods, and the service itself degenerates into a playground for sadists.

  Vladimir Bukovsky

  Skills, People, Degenerates

  "Torture's Long Shadow". www.washingtonpost.com. December 18, 2005.

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• I've done a lot of very low-budget indie films, so it was just really exciting and fun to be doing a film where there's a lot more time and these huge, vast sets. I was like a kid in a playground. It was amazing!

  Felicity Jones

  Fun, Kids, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

  Harry Seidler

  Government, Space, Needs

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• Go to a playground: Little girls get called 'bossy' all the time, a word that's almost never used for boys. And that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce. When a man does a good job, everyone says, 'That's great.' When a woman does that same thing, she'll get feedback that says things like, 'Your results are good, but your peers just don't like you as much' or 'maybe you were a little aggressive.'

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Girl, Jobs, Boys

  "'Lean In': Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Explains What's Holding Women Back". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.

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• When you learn conflict-resolution skills in the playroom, you then practice them on the playground, and that in turn stays with you. If you have a combative sibling or a physically intimidating, older sibling, you learn a lot about how to deal with situations like that later in life. If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sibling, Dark, Later In Life

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• For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, People, Giving

  "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, 2000.

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• As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

  Eberhard Weber

  Eight, Air, Years

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• New York City is my playground.

  Bethenny Frankel

  New York, Cities, New York City

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• It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has.

  Logan Lerman

  Children, Acting, Actors

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• Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that you are infinite life, choosing its playground; protect that the world you know exists with your consent and for your own good reasons; protect that your purpose and mission is to shine love in your own playful way, in the moments you decide will be most dramatic.

  Richard Bach

  Wall, Winning, Shining

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• Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle gym and establish your own turf somewhere else on the playground.

  Reid Hoffman

  Simple, Somewhere Else, Swings

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• Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

  Jane Smiley

  Men, Groups, Incompetent

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• The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work - is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?

  Aleister Crowley

  Children, Men, Names

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn't a pattern laid out to abuse and bully you. The future is a beautiful playground that nobody happens to be combining. You talk about virgin territory - the most virgin territory there is, is the future. You can do anything you want with it. Nobody is doing anything with it.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Beautiful, Bully, Abuse

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• Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

  Shania Twain

  Fun, Writing, Artistic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sport to which I owe so much has undergone profound changes, but it's still baseball. Kids still imitate their heroes on playgrounds. Fans still ruin expensive suits going after foul balls that cost five dollars. Hitting streaks still make the network news and hot dogs still taste better at the ballpark than at home.

  Duke Snider

  Sports, Baseball, Dog

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God makes no mistakes. In all our trials and dramas there are lessons. Life is not a playground but a classroom. Our journey through life provides the course work and the tests needed for our education and development.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Mistake, Life Lesson, Drama

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