Engaged Quotes - Page 9

• I'm never in Hollywood! I'm a theatre actor that lives in New York. I'm very seldom in Los Angeles. I don't dislike LA, I just don't think it's a very healthy place for me to be all the time. When I'm shooting a movie there and am working I'm perfectly happy. But when I'm not working or engaged in something it's a place that I wouldn't live.

  Willem Dafoe

  New York, Thinking, Healthy

  "Mr Bean's Holiday - Willem Dafoe interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock before I'm allowed to go and do something else. I just try to keep a hand in and work every single day, even if there are other demands or I'm on a book tour or have the flu or something, because then I keep my unconscious engaged with the book. Then I'm always a little bit writing, no matter what else I'm doing.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Writing, Hands

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2007.

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• In England we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Hate, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

  Marge Piercy

  Way, Suspense, Reader

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Technology, Personality, Force

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You have to keep people engaged until you get them through the next commercial. I'm not complaining about working in TV, at all, but just as an artistic reaction, I find myself being so drawn to moments of silence where things are allowed to breathe.

  Charlie Hunnam

  People, Silence, Complaining

  "Charlie Hunnam Talks DEADFALL, SONS OF ANARCHY Season 5, PACIFIC RIM, and Writing a Movie About a Drug Lord for WB and Legendary". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 5, 2012.

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• It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she had the address of appearing only to attend, but was continually doubling her chains upon her companions; which were so slender in themselves, and so silently fastened, that while the attention was engaged by other objects, they were not easily perceived. Each link grew tighter as it had been longer worn; and when by continual additions they became so heavy as to be felt, they were very frequently too strong to be broken.

  Samuel Johnson

  Strong, Broken, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.491

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• ... Athenians are addicted to innovation. They are daring beyond their judgment they toil on with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting, they were born into the world to take no rest themselves, and to give none to others.

  Thucydides

  Opportunity, Giving, Innovation

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• Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Sea, Lemmings, Proud

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• The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

  Thucydides

  Party, Passion, Ambition

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.

  J. William Fulbright

  Ideas, People, Principles

  "Is America on the path to 'permanent war'?" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2010.

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• When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between the conscious management of what you're doing and this state. . . . I would say that it's related to daydreaming. When I feel really engaged with a passage, I become so lost in it that I'm unaware of my real surroundings, totally involved in the pictures and sounds that that passage evokes.

  John Hersey

  Dream, Real, Writing

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• My advice for the next commander in chief: Listen to your military advisers. Listen to your generals. They are the experts. Even if you have a commander in chief who has served in the military, that person still isn’t engaged on a daily basis. The generals will know best.

  Ralph Abraham

  Military, Advice, Next

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Wall, Defense, World

  Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas”, p.161, Princeton University Press

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• Something seems wrong to most people engaged in struggle when they see more people hurt on their own side than on the other side. They are used to reading this as an indication of defeat, and a complete mental readjustment is required of them. Within the new terms of struggle, victory has nothing to do with their being able to give more punishment than they take (quite the reverse); victory has nothing to do with their being able to punish the other at all; it has to do simply with being able, finally, to make the other move... Vengeance is not the point; change is.

  Barbara Deming

  Hurt, Struggle, Moving

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• Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly. I wanted my intellectual parameters to expand. But it comes back to your own desire to be engaged and to live up to your parameters.

  Jeff Koons

  Children, Intellectual, Desire

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• People listen for cues - when they are searching for a decision, they look to people they know. Young people can be apathetic in certain ways unless they hear from someone they like and admire about why they should be engaged and involved. If someone you love is doing a rally or concert, you may be engaged to register.

  Hill Harper

  Love Is, People, Decision

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I am always in the right place at the right time successfully engaged in the right activity whether I know it or not.

  Leonard Orr

  Right Time, Right Place, Knows

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• The [Kwanzaa] holiday, then will of necessity, be engaged as an ancient and living cultural tradition which reflects the best of African thought and practice in its reaffirmation of the dignity of the human person in community and culture, the well-being of family and community, the integrity of the environment and our kinship with it, and the rich resource and meaning of a people's culture.

  Maulana Karenga

  Integrity, Holiday, Kwanzaa

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• To these Teachers of Zen; you want a zafu cushion? sit your zen ass on a bicycle
  seat and peddle into hurricane wind for 8 hours at your max effort; there is your ENGAGED ZEN!

  Steve Ilg

  Teacher, Wind, Effort

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• World don't need chiefs. We need engaged, talented leaders.

  Luiz Bolognesi

  Leader, Needs, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• People love music, they're always going to love music, it's our job to consistently push ourselves as artists to keep delivering stuff for people to stay engaged with.

  Amos Lee

  Jobs, Artist, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All of our panelists are deeply engaged in the topics at hand, so that leaves me free to convene a little dinner party, sans alcohol, and invite the rest of America to listen in.

  Gwen Ifill

  Party, Hands, America

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There's a real difference between a documentary that was all about facts and history and information. People just don't get as engaged in that kind of documentary - they don't fall in love, they don't cry, they don't forget who they are, they don't ride with you. As we realized we had richer, vérité kind of people, what we wanted to do is focus in on the vérité story.

  Abigail Disney

  Falling In Love, Real, Differences

  "This Film Could Change How the Right Wing Feels About Guns". Interview with Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. October 31, 2015.

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• For me, when I see movies where I kind of know who the characters are and what the situation is, I get bored. To me, it's, "How do I tell a story that will keep the audience engaged?" A great story does that: it's not exactly what you expect.

  Richard Shepard

  Character, Bored, Doe

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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