These Days Quotes - Page 9

• I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

  Nicole Kidman

  Character, Thinking, Decision

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

  Kerry King

  Numbers, Albums, Deceiving

  "Q&A: Slayer’s Kerry King". Interview with David Marchese, www.spin.com. November 9, 2009.

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• I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

  Anne Lamott

  Pieces, Four, Nonfiction

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• I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

  Ang Lee

  Religious, Thinking, Doe

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• These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Mean, Two

  Interview with Nancy Miller, www.lamag.com. November 20, 2012.

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• When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, "This is one of the great ones."

  Lindsay Lohan

  Stars, Kids, Men

  "Behind-the-Scenes with Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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• These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.

  John Lydon

  Kids, Adventure, Epic

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• I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Artist, Naked, Body

  Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Joselit, Kay Larson, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1989). “Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment”, Inst of Contemporary Art

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• I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Teenage, Thinking

  "Actress Danica McKellar Solves For 'X'". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. August 6, 2010.

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• I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines.

  Christopher Meloni

  Forget Everything, Lines, Busy

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• Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.

  Moby

  Cities, Friendly, Towns

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• I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

  Mandy Moore

  Real, Ambition, Musical

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• I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days.

  Roger Moore

  Thinking, America, Airports

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• I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

  Alanis Morissette

  Hate, Artist, Sisterhood

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• These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

  Van Morrison

  Taken, Media, Long

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• The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Holocaust, Genre

  "The happy trails of Viggo Mortensen". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.'

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Airplane, Phones, Waiting Rooms

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• When I'm done skating, I guarantee you that I will not look back and remember standing on the podium. I'm going to remember these days - being with the team. Training alone, in my basement. Training when everybody else is sleeping. Doing things that nobody else is doing. Digging down. Seeing what kind of character I truly have. I love that stuff.

  Apolo Ohno

  Team, Character, Sleep

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• In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Interesting, Mutts

  "The Social Animal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2011.

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• There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.

  Susan Orlean

  Track, Mind, Giants

  "William, Kate, and Justin Bieber" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.

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• If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.

  Michael Owen

  Football, Years, Games

  "Owen relies on honest approach to mean streets" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2006.

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• We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.

  Camille Paglia

  Stars, Psychics, Periods

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• These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

  Leon Panetta

  Headlines, International, Seconds

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• Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.

  Guy Pearce

  Funny, People, Looks

  "Q+A: Guy Pearce, Man with a Gun". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. May 21, 2012.

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