Supposed To Be Quotes - Page 21

• As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it is awesome.

  Katie Cassidy

  Character, Different, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• When one man becomes more important than the country he's supposed to be leading, this will always create a problem.

  Martina Navratilova

  Country, Men, Important

  Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. December 5, 2007.

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• The aging process is fascinating because it doesn't disturb me, because this is what it is supposed to be like. But I'll tell you what does - it's the lack of strength - you can't hold up suitcases and do it yourself. Loss of physical strength.

  Anita Roddick

  Loss, Doe, Suitcases

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• We really try not to spend too much time thinking about what we're supposed to be a punk band, or whatever. We do the exact same thing today that we been doing for years and years and years.

  Mark Hoppus

  Thinking, Years, Trying

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• It was supposed to be gross, and now it's gorgeous.

  Dave Grohl

  Gorgeous, Gross

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• I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be in that particular spot...You have many things to pick from when you're playing, so you try to train yourself to pick out the best things that you know.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Essence, Play, Trying

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• Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Robbing, Feels

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• Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are. They're supposed to be gigantic explosions and they're just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.

  Alan Alda

  Stars, Powerful, Heaven

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• Really it's always things that scare me like loss of control, dealing with the unknown and the unseen... Something that's not supposed to be there and you don't know where it came from, or what it wants from you, or how to defend yourself against it. That's the root of the things I find scary.

  Oren Peli

  Loss, Roots, Scary

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• It’s when we say that we don’t love something that people get surprised. “I thought you guys liked everything!” The stuff I don’t like is the lounge-y muzak in restaurants, elevators and hotels. It really gets me angry, because it’s supposed to be in the background. It’s not supposed to be something that people listen to.

  Stephen Dewaele

  People, Guy, Stuff

  "Soulwax/2manyDJs". Interview with Kevin EG Perry, kevinegperry.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States, not only knows, but has talked about at length in school, or on the way home from school.

  Bennett Cerf

  Teenager, Book, Home

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• If democracy is control by the people, as it is supposed to be, it is the right form of government. I believe in a complete democracy - individual, political, social, economic. If we really had that, which we don't now, it would be in harmony with divine purpose.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Believe, Government, People

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.155, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Life's supposed to be about making the path a little gentler for those traveling behind you.

  Reba McEntire

  Littles, Path, Behind You

  Reba McEntire (2015). “Comfort from a Country Quilt: Finding New Inspiration and Strength in Old-Fashioned Values”, p.101, Bantam

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• I'll quit eating meat when you get a cow out here to beat me at a poetry slam. Only so many words rhyme with 'Mooo.' I mean, yes, we're supposed to be better stewards; yes, we're supposed to take care of the earth; yes, we're supposed to honor the sacrifices made by the animals; yes yes yes yes yes, but dammit, we're in charge, and you know why? It's because of these [holding out thumbs]...Maybe you think that carrots are less important than cows. I think they're equal, especially in a sauce.

  Sherman Alexie

  Mean, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• Don't let anyone tell you that high school is supposed to be fun.  High school is to be endured.  College is fun.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fun, School, College

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• I know where I'm supposed to be at the time of the snap. Now, where the play dictates I'm going to go is a different story.

  Troy Polamalu

  Play, Different, Stories

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• I have fun every day. The game is supposed to be fun.

  Manny Ramirez

  Fun, Games, Having Fun

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• Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Add, Done, Leisure

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• I never went to school for that. In high school we had photography, which was great. That was another moment of discovery. I had a great teacher - I can't even remember her name now. I ended up going to boarding school for my last high school years and they had a dark room there. Of course there was curfew; you were supposed to be in bed at a certain time. But I would sneak out and sneak into the dark room and work all night.

  Jeff Vespa

  Photography, Teacher, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it's just so that I can always be playing hooky from one of them. I can always be rebelling against my boss. Like, I'm supposed to be writing this book, but - heh heh heh - I'm writing a movie, secretly. I'm procrastinating, and in my off-hours I'm working on this movie that I'm not allowed to do, because I'm supposed to be writing a book!

  Miranda July

  Book, Writing, Boss

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• I'm fascinated by the First World War because it was supposed to be the war to end all wars, and it was the biggest conflagration that this particular planet had seen. There was a lot of talk about utopia and how it was possible, and then, because of these events that for one reason or another couldn't be stopped, the idea of utopia went out the window.

  Glenn Close

  War, Ideas, Events

  "Mia Wasikowska". Interview with Glenn Close, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 3, 2014.

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• The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant to be a jazzy people who talk big and jump on the table and dance; we aren't supposed to be dopey and glum and brood over old injuries.

  Garrison Keillor

  Greatness, America, People

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• Slowing down reminds you that the journey is supposed to be fun.

  Anne Bancroft

  Fun, Journey, Slow Down

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• My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed to be, whom I came from, and who would follow me... That's what she said and what she showed me in the things she did and the way she lives.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Mother, Stories, Way

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• [Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they will run the country if elected. The problem is that government is not supposed to run the country - we're supposed to be free.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Running, Government

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