Wrong Way Quotes - Page 7

• With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.

  Gus Van Sant

  Blow, Hunting, Laughing

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 5, 2003.

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• Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly becomes costly.

  Jeremy Renner

  Moving, House, Creative

  "Brutal Honesty from Jeremy Renner, Streep & Coen Talk Film in China, Knightley on Dangerous Method & Anna Karenina" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

  Elvis Presley

  Training, Lines, Way

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• If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember - God permits U-turns.

  Suze Orman

  Way, Remember, Permit

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• I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.

  Meek Mill

  Hard Work, Artist, Worry

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• I also just get so ecstatic hearing and feeling the noise in general and it still makes me giggle inside playing certain sounds. One of the downsides is that in order to produce certain sounds, I'm totally using my arms the wrong way and sometimes that worries me. But then that physical strain puts me in a different state of mind to bring out different dimensions in the music, I suppose.

  Okkyung Lee

  Order, Worry, Feelings

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The biggest experiment there - and I was convinced for a really long time that it was going to fail horribly - had to do with this weird thing I do every now and then. Like everyone else, as a reader there are certain things that really rub me the wrong way in fiction - pet bugbears, let's call them.

  Roy Kesey

  Long, Pet, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

  Barry Commoner

  Tunnels, Light, Way

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• After Stand By Me came out, people were telling me, 'You're so good,' 'You're going to be a star,' and things like that. You can't think about it. If you take it the wrong way, you can really get high on yourself. People get so lost when that happens to them. They may think they have everything under control, but everything is really out of control. Their lives are totally in pieces.

  River Phoenix

  Stars, Thinking, People

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• There's no wrong way to experience a film.

  Vera Farmiga

  Way, Film

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• I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you’re really going about it the wrong way.

  Nicolas Cage

  Winning, Thinking, Oscars

  "Nicolas Cage On ‘Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance,’ Almost Starring In ‘Dumb and Dumber’ And Why He Is Led Zeppelin". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.

  Nick Cave

  Odds, People, Silence

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• To me, the fundamental thing - well, I guess I see a lot of people debating in the wrong way. A lot of the debate is, should we go to the coasts, should we go to the center, should we go to the left, should we go to the right?

  Mark Shields

  People, Fundamentals, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have...

  Chris Christie

  Country, Thinking, Government

  "Christie: ‘Treat New Jerseyans Like Adults’". Interview with Neil Cavuto, maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Hair, Would Be, Knees

  "Benedict Cumberbatch landed Star Trek role with pitch filmed on iPhone" by Henry Barnes, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'

  Geena Davis

  Doors, Elbows, Arms

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

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• My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

  Zooey Deschanel

  Mom, Dad, Funny Motivational

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• In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Literature, Way, Piety

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• I've been really surprised about a lot of the negative comments about artisanal pencil sharpening. Like, it really rubs some people the wrong way.

  David Rees

  People, Negative, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Don't take this the wrong way," Blue replied. Her cheeks felt a little warm, but she was well into this conversation and she couldn't back down now. "Because I know you're going to think I feel bad about it, and I don't." "All right." "Because I'm not pretty. Not in the way Aglionby boys seem to lie." "I go to Aglionby," Adam said. Adam did not seem to go to Aglinoby like other boys went to Aglionby. "I think you're pretty," he said.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Lying, Boys, Thinking

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• Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and some of that always shows in the children, the way something of Germany or Australia always shows in a German or an Australian, no matter where they go. Outsiders like it or they don't, they feel at home there or they don't. It's like the taste of cilantro.

  Roland Merullo

  Country, Children, Home

  Roland Merullo (2009). “A Little Love Story: A Novel”, p.96, Vintage

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• What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?

  Kanye West

  What If, Way, Architect

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• I don't mean to sound sexist, but as far as women have come over the last 40 years, you don't really see a lot of women hunters. They're still in the minority in the military, and there's not a lot of female construction workers. I hope that's not taken the wrong way. I think women are as smart, resourceful, and capable in most things as any man could be … but they are generally physically weaker. That's science.

  Robert Kirkman

  Military, Smart, Taken

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• I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.

  Tom Waits

  Fun, Oil, Bells

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• This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq... this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we dont try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war... our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

  John Pilger

  Song, Children, Clever

  John Pilger (2003). “The New Rulers of the World”, p.10, Verso

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