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A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.

Peter Temple

Hero, Writing, Personality

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Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont even talk - sometimes not even with their girlfriend or boyfriend or friends - about what they are doing.

Thomas Piketty

Girlfriend, Outsiders, Impossible

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Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

Harvey Martin

Acting, Persons

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You don't have to go out there and fit the mold of what a quarterback is supposed to be. Make your own mold and do the best at each role. If you can run with the best and throw with the best, you can be the best quarterback in your own version of the position.

Robert Griffin III

Running, Mold, Roles

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The Bible says, Judge not lest ye be judged. Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.

Tammy Faye Bakker

Judging, Courtroom, Our Lives

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I wasn't supposed to make it out of Detroit. I wasn't supposed to get a scholarship. I was supposed to be [covering] kicks the rest of my life. But here I am. I'm a man playing with the house's money, and that's a dangerous man.

Bart Scott

Men, Here I Am, House

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When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

Noah Baumbach

Writing, Procrastination, Finding Yourself

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After what I have seen, I realize that absolutely anything is possible, and that we did not come here to suffer. Life is supposed to be great, and we are very, very loved. The way I look at life has changed dramatically, and I am so glad to have been given a second chance to experience “heaven on earth”.

Anita Moorjani

Second Chance, Heaven, Suffering

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Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

Nancy Lublin

Writing, Type, Birkenstocks

"Leadership to the Rescue" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2010.

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Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else's. That's why I write. I'm not trying to change anybody else's life or the world, I'm trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That's the real point.

Guy Clark

Real, Writing, Brain

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The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.

Steve Jobs

People, Use, Computer

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A majority of the successful women on the pop scene conform to what a woman is supposed to be. Some have tried to get things moving. They have tried to modify the image. But sometimes the image has a hard time changing the eye - to change the relationship between the image and the eye takes longer.

Orlan

Moving, Eye, Successful

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be damaging and it's potentially dangerous to young girls and terrible for "excess" boys. But polyamory is supposed to be a more equal arrangement among agreeing adults.

Emily Yoffe

Girl, Boys, Excess

Source: www.slate.com

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What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be funny. And if it's supposed to be a serious line, it's going to be serious. But, I don't think there's a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it's based in the truth.

Barbra Streisand

Honesty, Drama, Thinking

Source: collider.com

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If I don't have to act, I'd rather not. I'd rather not act cold. I'd rather actually be cold. That's my weird way of acting. If the door is supposed to be locked, I'd rather have it locked. But of course, most of the time, we have to act, and that's okay, too.

Lea Thompson

Doors, Acting, Way

"Lea Thompson Talks THIN ICE, SWITCHED AT BIRTH, the BACK TO THE FUTURE Broadway Musical, RED DAWN Remake and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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You never know what a movie is going to look like when you're shooting it and you just hope it's going to look like it's supposed to be.

Sophia Bush

Shooting, Looks, Knows

"EXCLUSIVE: Sophia Bush Gets Played in Stay Alive!". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. March 24, 2006.

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I sort of have a dark, twisted, offbeat way of writing, which I see coming up in my kids. It's funny, on Halloween, one of my daughters said, "Halloween isn't supposed to be happy, dad, it's supposed to be dark. " No smiling pumpkins at the Sixx household!

Nikki Sixx

Daughter, Dad, Halloween

Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. November 8, 2007.

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That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty little secret is that the rallying cry is a whisper.... The great unspoken on the heterosexual AIDS front has been how behavior is still determined by the old psychosexual minuet of the sexes, the lack of responsibility in young men and of assertiveness in young women.

Anna Quindlen

Sex, Dirty, Responsibility

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When the Iron Curtain fell, all of the West rejoiced that the East would become just as free as the West. It was never supposed to be the other way around.

Rick Falkvinge

Iron, East, Way

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I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.

Robert Towne

Pants, Embarrassment, Caught

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The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Self, Feelings, Brain

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... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing mathematics. Then, when I discovered surreal numbers, I realized that playing games IS math.

John Horton Conway

Science, Math, Numbers

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And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.

Angela Carter

Mother, Class, Wife

Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.

Maggie Kuhn

Power, People, Important

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The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct.... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing.... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Girl, Children, School

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