Simple Quotes - Page 27

• I absolutely never thought I would! But it's something to look forward to in my career. I'm not just the young, leading guy who falls in love, simple and naive. Even just doing Enjolras recently in Les Mis. I used to cover Marius and thought: "Oh, that's simple. What I should be doing." But then when I got Enjolras, I hadn't even thought about it. He's more powerful, sure of himself, a leader. It was nice! It was much harder singing, passionate, declamatory. Which was awesome - and now this!

  Max von Essen

  Falling In Love, Powerful, Nice

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• I just wanted friends. I just wanted people to like me. I just wanted for things to be simple and good. So, for five years I actively sought out mediocrity.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Years, People, Mediocrity

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Ironically, when I hit adolescence, I was approached about modeling and acting all the time. And, for five years, I said, "No, I'm not interested. I want a simple life, I don't want to be in the spotlight."

  Evangeline Lilly

  Years, Acting, Spotlight

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I do get a sense that there's a huge disconnect between the political powers and what's really happening, so right-wing conservatives can talk about contraception all they want, but the women of America are using birth control. It's as simple as that.

  Anna Quindlen

  Wings, America, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.

  Bob Frank

  Two, Invisible Hand, Hands

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am definitely a Type-A, tidy, everything-has-a-place kind of person, so initially encouraging a mess was against my nature. But once you realize all the benefits, it's pretty simple to let that go.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Benefits, Kind, Realizing

  "This Is the Secret to Letting Your Kid Get Messy Without Losing It". Interview with Kate Schweitzer, www.popsugar.com. March 2, 2016.

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• I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.

  Loren Mazzacane Connors

  Player, Guitar, Musician

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Writing, Burroughs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

  David Longstreth

  Vocabulary, Esoteric, Common

  "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.

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• I started meeting the right people, like [producer] Dave [Okumu], who explained to me how songwriting is really simple - "just like shitting," he said. "You gotta let it all out." When he put it like that, however disgusting it is, it made a lot of sense to me.

  Jessie Ware

  People, Dave, Made

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Opposites, Ideas, Atmosphere

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.

  Joel Osteen

  Father, Church, Desire

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.

  Rokia Traore

  Thinking, Life Is Like, Melody

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.

  Mark Linkous

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I wanted to do an album that was very simple and very minimal in the context of instrumentation and stuff. I wanted to use as few means as possible to create a very powerful and interesting sound that would breathe.

  Sune Rose Wagner

  Powerful, Mean, Interesting

  "The Raveonettes". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. February 5, 2008.

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• I don't know, it's dorky. Just like quotes and stuff. Something I want to see everyday or something I want to be there. I don't know. I can put a hole in the wall if I want. It's mine. It's very simple. It's a very tiny house, but I can do whatever I want to. I can rip up the terrible vinyl floor and recycle it. Just create a good space. A quiet place to be.

  Justin Vernon

  Wall, Rip, Space

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I won't forget those kind of things, but I just want to write them down and look at them. It's almost like when things like music come out and you're listening to a song and you have experiences with art or phenomena that supersede your simple relationship with them as just a piece of art. They're more than that. That's just what those quote are for me. They're big, they're important.

  Justin Vernon

  Song, Art, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am just a simple guy and I like when people enjoy themselves. I always say: you can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself but please don't hurt each other. I really don't know, to be honest with you. I'm very impressed with everything that has happened.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Hurt, Laughing, People

  "The Room. Worst movie ever made?". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. April 18, 2011.

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• You just never set roots; you take pleasure in simple conversations, because you know you're not going to have much more than that. It's very isolating, and that can be a good thing.

  Feist

  Roots, Pleasure, Good Things

  Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2006.

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• When you come from a privileged household, we've been able to buy monthly feminine products since the first day that we got our periods. A lot of women out there have absolutely no means to be able to afford something that seems as simple and as much of a no-brainer as a feminine product. I think Monthly Gift has a really brilliant cause - giving underprivileged girls free feminine products every month.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Girl, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Punk gave me the strength to think, "Yeah, you can stand up and be counted, and do what you want in life, and not be hoodwinked by it all," in a simple, very general sweeping way.

  Steve Diggle

  Thinking, Want, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• For me, diversity is not a value. Diversity is what you find in Northern Ireland. Diversity is Beirut. Diversity is brother killing brother. Where diversity is shared - where I share with you my difference - that can be valuable. But the simple fact that we are unlike each other is a terrifying notion. I have often found myself in foreign settings where I became suddenly aware that I was not like the people around me. That, to me, is not a pleasant discovery.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Brother, Differences, Discovery

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Everyone wanted my emotions to be very simple. They wanted me to say, "I was poor and I was unhappy, and now I've got money and I'm really happy."

  J. K. Rowling

  Unhappy, Emotion, Poor

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• System theorists know that it's easy to couple simple-to-understand systems into a "super system" that's capable of displaying behavioral modes that cannot be seen in any of its constituent parts. This is the process called "emergence."

  John L. Casti

  Couple, Easy, Process

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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• Parents sometimes object to the amount of humor introduced into stories that are designed to teach moral or spiritual lessons. They seem to think that simple grim lecturing of children is the best way to achieve such goals.

  Mike Berenstain

  Spiritual, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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