Type Quotes - Page 4

• There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you can, and you don't have to put it through the process of having it be trendy or cool or generic pop or these types.

  M.I.A.

  Song, Writing, Want

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an essay, a novel, a biography - and at one point you realize you don't know where, as a reader, you want to be. Where are you going with this text? What is the goal? How are you supposed to interpret what you're reading? And people's responses vary - some dislike it, and are put off by the confusion, the lack of comprehension.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Book, Reading, Goal

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.

  Etgar Keret

  People, Stories, Feels

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• "Unputdownable" is, I suppose, something we all dream of, maybe without knowing it. I realized, some time ago, that a novel can hold a lot, and it made sense that this one was not of the sleek and economical variety, but instead the "full" type. Novel as piñata. And the reader does the whacking. I had a central idea, which is to look at what happens to talent over time.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Dream, Ideas, Knowing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is no more "front" and "rear" where Fobbit-types would go to hide out in safer locations. In Iraq and Afghanistan, you engaged in a theater of operations that's 360 degrees at all times.

  Dave Abrams

  Iraq, Location, Degrees

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.

  Biz Stone

  Real, Moving, Communication

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Somedays I think I'm a rebel in my own mind but most of the times I'm a low-key, follow the rules type of guy.

  Denzel Whitaker

  Thinking, Keys, Guy

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Dogwalker is a book of fiction, with characters based on the types of people who truly exist in the world. I've seen them and know them - some of them I know really well. Although the stories are sometimes gritty and unsettling, my hope is that in the end they hit a positive note.

  Arthur Bradford

  Book, Character, People

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• In most homes, from what I know of them, even though the woman's place in that particular home might be in the home, still, she is queen of her house. So I like exploring the many different incarnations of women in that country, actually. You find quite a range of these women in this book - each one of them embodies a completely different personality type. And how can you write a book that's only full of men, anyway? I mean, half the population of this world is women.

  Anita Rau Badami

  Country, Queens, Book

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a CERTAIN type of music that any artist should be confined to, in my opinion.

  Ab-Soul

  Artist, People, World

  Source: thepoetryquestion.com

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• The sad thing is that somehow, it is a type of event that mirrors the artist. You take it into account, and you're reminded in this specific case what the artist's work is about, what his life is like, and how life mirrors art.

  Massimiliano Gioni

  Art, Mirrors, Life Is Like

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I've always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.

  Karen Elson

  People, Interesting, Circus

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I need to do a concert to celebrate David Bowie's electronic music. And in so doing, I'm not taking a step back, I'm taking a step forward and presenting it in its entirety so people can understand this type of visionary.

  Carlos Alomar

  People, Needs, Visionaries

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People still tweet me like, "Oh my god, I just found out you guys are married!" Which makes sense to me because I'm not the type of person who is like, "I love this actor, let me find out everything about their lives."

  Mary Elizabeth Ellis

  People, Guy, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  People, Kind, Factories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I know the world doesn't need maybe another of [a particular type of song] - the same thing again - but you can't help yourself. And some people like it, but you kind of know in your heart that it's a lesser version of what you've done before. But maybe it has a good tempo, or it feels fresh, but it's still not.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Heart, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Love is at once the most creative and yet simultaneously destructive force in the world, and thus, in our lives. And I don't mean the Hallmark sentimental type of love, although that is part of it. But a deeper obligation that we have to each other: the obligation to reflect our humanness at each other, to reflect back the things others show us and we, them.

  Chris Abani

  Mean, Love Is, Creative

  RUMPUS INTERVIEW with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.

  Gail Zappa

  Piano, Library, Musician

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's this great Ron Carlson story, "A Note on the Type," and it's about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He's really good at escaping, but he gets caught all the time, because he can't stop writing his name on underpasses where he's running from the law. And there's this whole beautiful paragraph about how to run is to write. And, you know, it's obviously about the writer's life.

  Pam Houston

  Beautiful, Running, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Woody Allen, that was a dream come true, although I never really talked to him. Auditioning was fun, because you don't really hear much about the script. They just said, "They want a Woody Allen type," so of course I got the call.

  Peter Jacobson

  Dream, Fun, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of the reasons I like to hang out with scholarly types is they can do a broad reach conceptualization of things that is astonishing to me. I'm really good at the particulars but I have to do an immense amount of critical thinking to make something larger of it.

  Lucy Corin

  Thinking, Reason, Broads

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would encourage the people out in Chicago and all of us to continue to press for, that type of prosecutorial accountability.

  Hakeem Jeffries

  People, Accountability, Chicago

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We trust the bully much better than we trust the underdog. Maybe it's in our nature, but it is so that all around the world there is this certain type that can succeed in politics and it's people who are - alpha types.

  Jon Gnarr

  People, Bully, Underdog

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Parents should be able to develop goals about the type of parents they want to be.

  Timothy Carey

  Goal, Parent, Want

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Parents typically don't talk to each other about their goals and attitudes to parenting but this type of conversation could be very useful for helping parents become clearer about the things that are important to them.

  Timothy Carey

  Attitude, Goal, Parent

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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