Sometimes Quotes - Page 18

• More than a non-acting director, I think I notice when an actor is not believing in themselves. Chicago actors in particular, they work very hard and are very talented, but sometimes they don't trust how talented they are. I notice when they keep something in reserve.

  Harry Lennix

  Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Always being on the move has strange consequences. I meet so many amazing people, for a night, or sometimes just a few days. And I know they are not going to become people I communicate with every day. Life becomes very ephemeral.

  Gaspar Claus

  Moving, Night, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We are getting close to the point where as every platform of tech that has any level of scale gets bought by either Google or Facebook or sometimes Microsoft. We are getting to the point where we see some oligopoly in terms of behavior online, and that it's really problematic because the oligopolies are completely non transparent, they are terrible in terms of labor and economic equality and they support systems of surveillance. It can create a world where we are all placed in bubbles, where the systems themselves can be manipulated by people who don't have our best interests in mind.

  Ramesh Srinivasan

  People, Support, Google

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Europe has grown through crises. Each crisis also presents opportunities, and Europe has emerged stronger from each one. That is the way history unfolds. Europe is sometimes slow, and it reacts sluggishly, but it is capable of finding solutions.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Opportunity, Stronger, Crisis

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sometimes in your life you need a little bit of a push.

  Alessandra Mastronardi

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You can give the greatest performance possible, but if you don't have a director who's pointing the camera in the right direction and an editor who's editing it properly, it doesn't matter what you do. The director and the editor are the most important people. Not the actors. Sometimes the writer is important. But if you don't have a good director, you can't have a good production.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  People, Giving, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• You can get an audience, you can get followers all over the world and there's great power and excitement in those connections but there also is grave danger of misinterpretation, sometimes something can be incendiary and we also see what I think of as an arms race between these new technologies that allow for expression and communication and then new methods of surveillance and suppression.

  Suzanne Nossel

  Communication, Technology, Thinking

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• Sometimes people say, do you want a drink? And I say, oh, I'd like to, but I'm a tragic alcoholic. I always say tragic. I'm a tragic alcoholic.

  David Sedaris

  People, Drink, Tragic

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Wardruna is a combination of old and new. I use historical instruments and new and electronic instruments and tools. I use drones and samples to build these huge sounds. Sometimes just a sound can trigger words or melodies. I don't have a romantic notion about the past; with Wardruna I wanted to create something new using something old.

  Einar Selvik

  Past, Historical, Something New

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I can't write or read music. I am self-taught and never learned formally. It can be a curse sometimes but I think it's more difficult for those who need the music to read from than for those who play by ear.

  Einar Selvik

  Writing, Thinking, Difficult

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm aware of everything - it's my job - I keep up to speed, and I have a blessed memory. The brain chemistry I have is such that my memory is wonderful. And sometimes it's helpful, and other times it ends up being frustrating.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Memories, Blessed, Brain

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

  Wole Soyinka

  Thinking

  Source: ynaija.com

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• Performance is really an important part of how I edit. I sometimes take something out because I realize I put in a joke just to be funny and the audience laughed, but I should be ashamed of myself. I sometimes take out sentences, which are perfectly fine on paper, just because they don't flow when I say them out loud. I always read my work out loud now.

  David Sedaris

  Work Out, Important, Realizing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact that songwriting is so difficult and music criticism has become so content driven means that sometimes critics can go for the easy descriptors rather than an in-depth analysis.

  Marissa Nadler

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Humour is a way of relating and connecting to people, especially when you're a minority or misunderstood. It has the power that other forms of conversations or writing don't have. With all the problems I had, sometimes the only way of coping with it is to make fun of yourself.

  Haroon Moghul

  Fun, Writing, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Globalization in part means that a lot of people are walking into the room and in some cases becoming influential or even dominant voices in the conversation. Sometimes they are like party-crashers coming in and pushing people around, scooping up the valuables and eating up the food in the frig - bribing political leaders, undermining traditional economies and the ways of life that are interwoven with them, replacing them with new economic models that effectively exploit developing countries for their labor and resources.

  David Wong

  Country, Mean, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The demonization of Islam and immigrants shows that perception of difference remains one of our biggest problems, and maybe always will be for a species that began in small groups competing with other groups for resources. These apparently competing forces for sameness and difference sometimes even seem to be mutually reinforcing. The homogenizing force of globalization tends to make many people feel they are on the losing side, economically and culturally, and it is they who are most easily turned against those "others" who are demonized by demagogues.

  David Wong

  People, Perception, Islam

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The good of the family cannot be achieved without consideration of an individual's important interests. If those interests are urgent and weighty, they must become important interests of the family and can sometimes have priority in case of conflict. Sometimes, members must split their differences in compromise. Over time, yielding to others at some times must be balanced against getting priority for one's interests at other times.

  David Wong

  Priorities, Important, Compromise

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well.

  Ian Bremmer

  Done

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• People dressing up as you is always a weird experience. Or sometimes you get the odd person who genuinely believes that you are your character. I've had that happen where I'm like, "No. No. No. Call me Sophie. It's OK." And they are like, "No my lady. I can't!" And it's really weird. But some people just find it difficult to separate that kind of thing.

  Sophie Turner

  Believe, Character, People

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• To me, the thing that sets us apart from so many other animal species is our ability to ask questions, investigate, gather information, come to our own conclusions, and sometimes depart from the pack, sometimes move away from the tribe. And I'm not seeing a lot of that right now among a sizable portion of American politics and American voters. I'm not seeing that kind of use of critical thinking, and it really, really freaks me out.

  Karyn Kusama

  Moving, Animal, Thinking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Yet it's true that looks matter in politics... It is also true that perfecting the outer shell has become an obsession in this country... Mitt Romney, Barack Obama and John Edwards almost always look good, and pretty much the same, in dark suits or casual wear. Fred Thompson always looks crepuscular and droopy. Often Hillary Clinton looks great, and sometimes she looks tired, heavier or puffier.

  Maureen Dowd

  Country, Tired, Dark

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I have learned one thing, because I get treated very unfairly, that's what I call it, the fake media. And the fake media is not all of the media. You know some tried to say that the fake media was all the media, no. Sometimes they're fake, but the fake media is only some of the media. It bears no relationship to the truth.

  Donald Trump

  Fake, I Have Learned

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We make a living playing basketball. You don't have to be a tough guy or a hard-ass to play this sport. You can be tough but you don't have to have that bravado. Sometimes it's good. But I'm not going to be someone I'm not. It's just me being me.

  Chris Bosh

  Basketball, Sports, Guy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• An audience is the perfect thing to unleash venom and hate on. It doesn't necessarily mean you hate everyone in the audience but when you've got a so-called adoring mass in front of you, it's a perfect target for that kind of disgust. Sometimes you find yourself in a position where you're venting your disgust on an audience and a lot of them keep coming back 'cos they actually like that aspect. In a way that diffuses the feeling and you don't gel the same release.

  Nick Cave

  Hate, Mean, Perfect

  Source: thequietus.com

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