Connections Quotes - Page 15

• Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular perspectives on your work, and it's enlightening sometimes to know that non-writers and readers out there have certain assumptions about everything that I both want to keep in mind and want to forget about why I write, and about the connection between me as a private person and the stuff that I think about on the page.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Writing, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Criticism can be wonderful, especially in making connections in an interpretive way. But by applying theories randomly, it's an interesting exercise, but I don't think it illuminates the literature.

  T.C. Boyle

  Exercise, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not quite sure where the sponsorship rumour came from... probably because I have been a spokesperson for child sponsorship so people just assumed that was the connection.

  Brooke Fraser

  Children, People, Sponsorship

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.

  Billy Gibbons

  Son, House

  "BYT Interviews: Billy Gibbons". Interview with Jonny Grave, brightestyoungthings.com. January 18, 2016.

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• I'm always intrigued by people that listen to my music, I just naturally want to get to know people who listen to my music because people who end up having such an attachment with my stuff, I wonder why they have such a connection to something that's so personal to me in the first place.

  Ellie Goulding

  Attachment, People, Want

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• I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.

  Chelsea Martin

  Thinking, People, Intimacy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was trying to hold up a mirror to this country, to reflect the past years or so, and the varying degrees in which we've been affected by the war(s) that doesn't seem to end. And we've all been affected somehow, even if we have no connection to the military, even if we don't know anyone who's killed or been killed. No one escapes something so large.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  Country, Military, War

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form, though, for conveying the experience of us each being alone, trapped in our skulls with only these bodies and this imperfect instrument of language to convey our state and to find meaning and connection.

  Michael Helm

  Ideas, Skulls, Body

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am a particle physicist, which is the nearest branch to nuclear physics. So in that sense I was the sort of right connection with the subject of nuclear energy and so on.

  Abdus Salam

  Energy, Nuclear, Branches

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• What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection to trying to make revolutionary change, and I don't need to change my music to get to a certain audience.

  Boots Riley

  Ideas, People, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it.

  Leni Zumas

  Writing, Cutting, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The festivals are cool because you make a lot of connections at the festivals.

  Philipp Wolter

  Festivals

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There was an Israeli artist who was in grad school with me. I remember trying to get to know him on a more personal level. He had moved to the Fairfax area, not realizing that it's a super Jewish part of L.A. He told me, I don't understand why American Jews feel this connection with me. I was embarrassed because I was feeling that connection with him, too!

  Jill Soloway

  School, Artist, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There’s a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and women’s literacy and empowerment, including women’s gainful employment. If you look at the more than 300 districts of India, the strongest influences in explaining fertility variations are women’s literacy and gainful economic employment.

  Amartya Sen

  Strong, Empowerment, India

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• There are some people who say that they’re concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I don’t think that is a sustainable thought. A lot of poverty is, in fact, inequality because of the connection between income and capability—having adequate resources to take part in the life of the community.

  Amartya Sen

  Thinking, People, Community

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• There is a connection between the issue of refugees and the battle against the so-called Islamic State.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Islamic, Issues, Battle

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or other forms of borrowed stories. When I stumbled across the Missed Connections listings, I knew immediately I'd found it.

  Sophie Blackall

  Ebay, Shopping, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• On the other hand, I'm drawn to top hats, and spats, and mustaches. I haven't read a Missed Connection yet with someone wearing a monocle, but rest assured I'll snap it up if I do.

  Sophie Blackall

  Hands, Mustache, Top Hats

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I did have a couple of people asking me to illustrate their MC in a hope to widen the exposure, unfortunately the messages weren't a good fit, so I couldn't oblige. And I didn't really want to become a matchmaking service. Someone posted a missed connection "I like your blog" which was directed at me... that was kind of fun to stumble across.

  Sophie Blackall

  I Like You, Couple, Fun

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl waiting at a bus stop on his morning commute for weeks, and has been trying to find a way to approach her. He thought it would be fun to put up a Missed Connections poster [of my painting] on the corner where she waits and see what happens. It is kind of an intriguing idea but there's something a bit too manipulative about it for my liking. It's a fine line between being creative and stalking!

  Sophie Blackall

  Girl, Morning, Fun

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I had a visceral connection to the period [of Korean War]. By visceral I suppose I mean emotional. But every fiction requires so much that is not that so I did a lot of other research and a lot of thinking, a lot of struggling there.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  War, Struggle, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I saw Ben Stiller's movie Walter Mitty [2013]; it's very beautiful. You look at some of the movies John Ford did with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, and then look at Remington and Ansel Adams, and I think you see a connection, certainly in the imagery of the West.

  Owen Wilson

  Beautiful, Thinking, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that one of the reasons that we chose the word love as the subject is because your human connection and how you affect everybody around you, you'll only understand the gravity of that as you pass later on in life. I think as artists it's our ability to communicate that in certain ways.

  Tom DeLonge

  Artist, Thinking, Way

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• he hardest obstacle for me has been to find a father. I am the product of three fathers, and my connection to each of them has left me wanting. Each have their own strengths and weaknesses, but I've always been in competition with them in some way.

  Damon Runyon

  Father, Competition, Weakness

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• I love that moment when I feel a connection to another person, however brief or insignificant. I am always inspired by anything created by someone trying to overcome great obstacles. Good tunes never hurt, either.

  Tohoru Masamune

  Hurt, Trying, Overcoming

  "Tohoru Masamune: Pursuing Dreams and Embracing Chaos". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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