Twists Quotes - Page 5

• I have a huge scarf from Hermes that I bought the day I signed my record deal. I had never had an Hermes scarf. And I ran to buy one, thinking, Now, this is a symbol, I need one, I need an Hermes scarf, which actually now Im quite embarrassed about. Most of the time I twist it so much that no one notices it, and just bundle it around me.

  Lou Doillon

  Thinking, Needs, Scarves

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• I always begin with a source of inspiration that comes from nature. The story comes from my research, volunteering, and meeting the people involved in that story world. I am an intuitive writer and an image, sound, experience can all inspire a scene or a plot twist!

  Mary Alice Monroe

  Inspiration, People, Volunteer

  Source: www.maryannhenry.com

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• The idea of surprise is part of what makes something funny, or what gets a reaction. At least when I'm an audience member, after you hear a joke so many times it's not as funny because it loses its surprise or its twist. So I think funny has to do with surprise.

  Charlyne Yi

  Thinking, Ideas, Surprise

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.

  Samuel Fuller

  People, Medical, Oliver Twist

  "Fictional character: Cathy". "Shock Corridor", www.imdb.com. 1963.

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• I'm always revving the engine. In this industry, there are so many twists and turns. You never have it made.

  Juliette Lewis

  Made, Turns, Industry

  "Juliette Lewis Talks THE FIRM and Future Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2012.

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• From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with a comedy twist to it.

  Tom Six

  Kids, Drawing, Stuff

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• At a certain point the audience shouldn't worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that's pretty much impossible.

  David Cronenberg

  Worry, Understanding, Impossible

  "Interview: David Cronenberg On Cosmopolis". Interview with Luke Goodsell, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. August 17, 2012.

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• I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Believe, People, Trying

  Source: jontrott.com

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• Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver Twist in the poorhouse, holding up an empty bowl and begging, "I want some more"? Isn't it possible that our dream of the good society contained, from the beginning, a hidden violation of the Tenth Commandment "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"?

  Joy Davidman

  Dream, Want, Matter

  Joy Davidman (1985). “Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments”, p.119, Westminster John Knox Press

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• There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

  Bill Walton

  Fate, Simple, Guarantees In Life

  Source: blitzweekly.com

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• One of the main things when you get notes from a studio is they don't want anyone to be confused ever, everything has got to be so obvious at all times unless it's a twist ending.

  Rob Zombie

  Confused, Want, Notes

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Schools of science and physics replacing each other at a faster and faster rate. Just the nature of our world is constant revision, constant...negation of previous beliefs, and so...the whole world is a twist ending. Every week is a twist ending.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  School, Our World, Revision

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I know I made plenty of mistakes in my tenure. But one of the things that you learn is to be very careful and to protect yourself down the road a little bit, which is to say you've got to think ahead and think where is the story going to go? What are all the possible outcomes? And how do I protect the president from unexpected twists and turns in the road?

  Dee Dee Myers

  Mistake, Thinking, President

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I have a great sense of humor, but it has an ironic twist to it.

  Howard Dean

  Ironic, Sense Of Humor

  "Dean on peeves, profanity and feet". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. March 24, 2009.

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• Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

  Graham Greene

  Trust, Cities, Insecurity

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

  Michael Pollan

  Garden, Space, Landscape

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.244, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

  Graham Greene

  Insecurity, Poison, Lovers

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• When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the show, I had this thought that it would be really cool if we had a coup de théâtre. What would they want? And then I was like, an amazing, enormous tuna puppet that was like 30 by 40 feet would be pretty incredible. So I called up Basil Twist, and he got really excited immediately and started sketching out his idea, and I think it's a real highlight of the show.

  Alex Timbers

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Gentleman, Pockets

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.128, GENERAL PRESS

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• Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Father, Selfish, Thinking

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series”, p.208, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely thrashed, and after all of these things, to be defeated.

  Epictetus

  Wine, Exercise, Dust

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• Yeah when you're in the middle of filming this movie [Bad Santa 2] it doesn't matter what you say you can think of some sort of way to twist it into something dirty so we were laughing a lot.

  Christina Hendricks

  Dirty, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: screenrant.com

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• And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say, and others like dead people lying on the grass. I went on among them, though they frightened me, and my heart was full of wicked song they put into it; and I wanted to make faces and twist myself about the way they did, and I went on and on a long way till at last I liked the rocks and they didn’t frighten me any more

  Arthur Machen

  Song, Lying, Heart

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• Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways

  Jane Green

  Thinking, Work Out, Needs

  Jane Green (2006). “Swapping Lives”, p.10, Penguin

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• You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist the lute string with the cord on the cake boxes. "I got terrible arthuritis." "I dust a bit," Ignatius told the policeman. "In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Jobs, Home, Writing

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