Situation Quotes - Page 35

• For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself.

  James Ellroy

  Mean, Self, Talking

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• If people go to IMDB, they will see that I'm very comfortable with independent cinema, and doing studio films too. For me this is not an either/or situation.

  Spike Lee

  Independent, People, Cinema

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.

  Liz W. Garcia

  Directors, Males, Female

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Bigger-budgeted films have more restrictions and less freedom to create. Because of this, I try to find freedom in the people I work with. I often work in ways I don't want to. It's more about controlling the situation. Lower-budget films are freer.

  Takashi Miike

  People, Trying, Want

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I prefer to take actors and put them in real settings and real locations and real situations rather than create artificial locations that serve the characters. It's just much easier when you are walking down the street with your actors to do that in a real street that's still open with people on it, rather than to close it off and bring in extras.

  Michael Winterbottom

  Real, Character, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at them, the look on the lady's face is like so clear and her body language and her posture or their physical situation is so immediately recognizable. Anyone who's been in a conversation they didn't want to have, or been getting harangued by a little kid they didn't want to pay attention to or been tired and wanted to go to bed is just like, "Yes, of course."

  Mallory Ortberg

  Art, Kids, Tired

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think I'm very good at adjusting to anything and to any situation, and if you are good at being in the moment and adjusting, you can actually have a clear vision of what to do with things or how to do things.

  Salma Hayek

  Thinking, Vision, Adjusting

  "Puss in Boots - Salma Hayek interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Ok so there's no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so my situation is a little better than someone who's strictly just an actor or actress.

  Wanda Sykes

  Tv Shows, Actors, Littles

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• I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence.

  Marge Piercy

  Stress, Thinking, People

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• Basically, I'm going to take what you did, the bare-bones structure of what you were trying to do, how you were attacking the song, and attack it in pretty much the same way, just with more intensity to show you that you could've come harder. Like, I've been in situations where I've had to tell a cat how to rhyme his rhyme.

  Bun B

  Song, Cat, Trying

  Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.

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• I think that one of the many advantages of death accruing over a long period of time is that you do have time to meet a lot of other people who are going through similar situations and one of the great delights of our life actually was sitting around in labs waiting for the results of tests and talking to other people who were waiting to find out whether their cancer numbers were going in the right direction or not.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Cancer, Thinking, Numbers

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• We've all had those phone conversations. Things are heated, you're in a position where you're gonna say something nasty. Instead, you say, "Oh, I've got that thing in the oven." Lie. Get off the phone. Don't perpetuate a bad situation.

  Joe Manganiello

  Lying, Phones, Nasty

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Mean, Keys, Expectations

  "Sing Your Prayers: An Interview With Bobby McFerrin". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation.

  Dean Kamen

  World, Therapy, Reasonable

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. June 9, 2009.

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• There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

  Alain Badiou

  Ethics, Possibility, Process

  Alain Badiou (2002). “Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil”, p.16, Verso

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• Mindfulness is a state wherein one is totally aware in any situation and so always able to respond appropriately. Yet one is aware of being aware. Mindlessness, on the other hand, or "no-mindness" as it has been called, is a condition of such complete absorption that there is not vestige of self-awareness.

  Philip Kapleau

  Self, Hands, Able

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• The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Lying, Men

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• The holidays often bring challenging conversations and situations. Sometimes holiness demands that we speak, other times it invites us to be silent. In all circumstances, though, we are called to love.

  Mark Hart

  Holiday, Challenges, Demand

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• The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.

  Yasser Seirawan

  Boxing, Titles, World

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• That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there?

  Victor Borge

  Distance, People, Needs

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• The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Running, Wall, Mirrors

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the great things about rap music... it leaves a lot to be desired, as far as I'm concerned, musically, but I do recognize the very important place that it has in music and in creating role models for younger kids to emulate, giving them the dream that they can make it out of whatever situation they're in.

  Graham Nash

  Dream, Rap, Kids

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• No matter what the situation may be, there is always something positive you can do about it.

  Ralph Marston

  May, Matter, Can Do

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• I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion journals and all the rest of it. I think it's terribly important that this be taught in the public schools, because otherwise, we're gonna get to a situation because of economic pressures and other things where television's all you've got left. And that would be disastrous. We can't cover the news in a half-hour event evening. That's ridiculous.

  Walter Cronkite

  Believe, School, Thinking

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• Dogs don't mind being photographed in compromising situations.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Dog, Mind, Compromise

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