Unusual Quotes - Page 28

• It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.

  Fefe Dobson

  Mom, Struggle, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Crazy, Cowboy, Shoes

  "What I see in the mirror" by Patricia Cornwell, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.

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• I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

  Ricky Jay

  Writing, Editors, Long

  "So Many Weird Worlds: A Conversation with Ricky Jay" by Cole Louison, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2011.

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• Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.

  Elliott Carter

  Pieces, Radio, Surprising

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• That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!

  Roman Coppola

  Design, Creative, Waiting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Couple, Years, Luck

  "'80s actor known as Booger still busy in the biz" by Serena Kappes, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2002.

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• I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

  Eoin Colfer

  Doctors, Television, Shows

  "Writing my very own Doctor Who". www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2013.

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• It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'

  Dario Fo

  Writing, Breathing, Technique

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• Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.

  Arlen Specter

  Punishment, Would Be, Today

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• Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

  Joe Klein

  Inspirational, Winning, Campaigns

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• I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Done, Aliens, Horror

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• Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Beautiful, Provocative, Elegant

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• None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling. Unfortunately, Bertrand Russell's observation about life in general applies with unusual force in the financial world: "Most men would rather die than think. Many do."

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Mean, Men

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1990.

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• Wolf," said Ran, enunciating it very carefully. "What an unusual name. Did your parents give it to you?" "Does it matter?" said Wolf, tossing away his bone. "I'm only making conversation." "I'd prefer silence," Wolf said, a growl in his tone.

  Marissa Meyer

  Names, Giving, Silence

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• I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.

  Andrew Davies

  Beautiful, Dark, Blue

  "This much I know". Interview with Catriona O'Shaughnessy, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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• I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Age, Different, Pieces

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

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• So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

  Jim Bolger

  Country, Thinking, Periods

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• For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We make no wonder of the rising and the setting of the sun which we see every day; and yet there is nothing in the universe more beautiful, or worthy of wonder. When, however, an eclipse of the sun takes place, everyone is amazed - because it happens rarely.

  Gerald of Wales

  Beautiful, Eclipse Of The Sun, Rising

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• She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.

  Neil Gaiman

  Ocean, Eye, Thinking

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• Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They
  cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can
  only represent what is unusual.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Editors, Giving, Safe

  "The Ball and the Cross". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

  Myriam Miedzian

  Men, Self, United States

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.16, Lantern Books

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• If you're a fan of American roots music, you won't want to miss 'Awake My Soul--The Story of the Sacred Harp.' Filmmakers Matt and Erica Hinton have done a fine job capturing the history, sound and spirit of this unusual but compelling art form that, trust me, you don't have to be religious to appreciate.

  Eric Zorn

  Religious, Art, Jobs

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• The Book of Telling tells of a woman's journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process, an unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.

  Alan Lightman

  Powerful, Father, Book

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• If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about that. Rather it's that I remember things other people don't recall: the sounds and feelings and images - the emotional quality - of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself - my dreaming life - still lives in the light of childhood.

  Maurice Sendak

  Dream, Emotional, Light

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• By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Years, Age, Longevity

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