My Favorite Quotes - Page 8

• I guess bittersweet is probably my favorite tone, as a lover of Woody Allen and Federico Fellini and the French New Wave. You know, old Hollywood, sad movies. I guess it's my picture of suburban life, a lot of it being very, very lonely. I wanted to have that infused into the feeling of it.

  Greg Mottola

  Lonely, Feelings, Lovers

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• My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.

  Samantha Power

  Children, Window, Understand Me

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• The classic one for me is one of my favorite images - left-versus-right political-spectrum image. I was trying to visualize the concepts on the political spectrum. I'm left-leaning, and I discovered as I was doing it that I had an impulse to make the left-hand side appear better than the right-hand side. That was manifesting in the way I was choosing certain words, framing certain ideas. I shared it with a few people, and they all said, "Oh my God, this is really biased." I hadn't seen it at all.

  David Mccandless

  People, Political, Trying

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• I write like anyone involved with a family and a full time job: in stolen moments. I've had to adapt because I have so little writing time, so I write while dinner bubbles on the stove, and get away to cafes when I can. It is good to have a small laptop to haul around. I wish I could admit to bizarre writing habits, you know, like "I can only write in the presence of my favorite pet elephant, who is my fount of inspiration," but the truth, alas, is far more mundane.

  Vandana Singh

  Inspiration, Writing, Pet

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• I never want to go back and remix old records, either. If a record sounds shitty, that's just the sound it has. I just take it as part of the music. Some of my favorite bands - their old records sound terrible. But that's just part of the sound. If they were perfect, I'd probably hate them. Same thing with movies.

  Rob Zombie

  Hate, Perfect, Terrible

  Interview with Andrew Paul, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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• I don't really have any great interest in writing for movies. Comics, to me, is a much more promising field. There's still a lot of ground to be broken in comics, whereas movies, to a degree... I don't know. They're a wonderful art form, but they're not my favorite art form. They might not even be in the top five of my favorite art forms.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Writing, Broken

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• Portland has influenced me in that it is very much where I feel most "at home" in the world. I grew up there. My family is there, my closest friends are there; my favorite bookstore, record store and coffee joint are there. Portland changed a lot during the eight years I lived in Bellingham but, every time I went back, it always felt like home.

  Kasey Anderson

  Coffee, Home, World

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• I liked radio, or podcasting. I like talking minus the camera and the script part. All those mediums are different, and they are all different with their pluses and minuses. I would say the podcast is my favorite because I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. The pace of radio is very fast. Boom, boom, with a little six minute segment, then on to the next thing. With podcasts you can talk about something for 25 minutes if you like - there is a lot of artistic freedom with it.

  Adam Carolla

  Different, Artistic, Mess

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• My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Emotion, Excited, Fantastic

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• One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, Character, Reality

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• When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.

  Christina Aguilera

  Baseball, Team, Creative

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• I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.

  Malin Akerman

  Italian, Say Anything, Fans

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

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• My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.

  Ted Allen

  Thanksgiving, Vegetables, Years

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

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• My favorite saying is, 'If it's too loud, turn it up.'

  Tori Amos

  Loud, Turns, Ifs

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• In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

  Ian Anderson

  Song, Identity, Determined

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• 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Novel

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• I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.

  Ani DiFranco

  New York, Mean, Animal

  "Ani DiFranco, Then and Now". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2010.

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• One of my favorite things is mayonnaise and I have to tell you that. I love mayonnaise, but I don't eat it any more. If I do I put light mayonnaise on it, which I know is still not good but it's a lot better than the other one and I don't eat it that much.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Light, Mayonnaise

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• Really, if I'm gonna eat a meat, I'd rather eat venison than anything and I do like it a little on the rare side. That's probably my favorite meat and I've had some awfully good venison in some of the great restaurants.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Great Restaurants, Littles

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• I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite but something I've always felt grateful for - was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn't tons of feminist literature floating around.

  Beth Ditto

  Growing Up, Grateful, Idols

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• My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

  Rita Dove

  May, Bread, Poet

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• My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

  Drake

  Artist, Green, Als

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• My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.

  David Duchovny

  Mistake, Lightning, Directors

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• Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall.

  Hilary Duff

  Sometimes, Restaurants, Malls

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• I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

  Lena Dunham

  Thinking, Done, Comedy

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