Self Contained Quotes

• Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.

  Christopher Meloni

  Crazy, Character, Self

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• God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.

  Sivananda

  Self, Satisfaction, Eternal

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• Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Friendship, Mistake, Women

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• The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Creating, Moments, Better Future

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• If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independent, Men, Privilege

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• You create a good future by creating a good present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Positive Thinking, Creating, Better Future

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• The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.

  Stephen Hawking

  Boundaries, Conditions, Universe

  Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose (2010). “The Nature of Space and Time”, p.79, Princeton University Press

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• Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.

  Meg Greenfield

  Drama, Simple, Reality

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• My specialty is mythology.There are artifacts like the hallows scattered through just about every mythology. However, what makes the Celtic hallows so interesting is that they are a self-contained group of objects.

  Michael Scott

  Self, Interesting, Groups

  Source: emunderwood.com

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• Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.

  William Zinsser

  Memories, Writing, Thinking

  William Zinsser (2005). “Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past”, p.7, Da Capo Press

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• [Maigret] is terribly self-contained, not that I would ever wish him to be any more comic, particularly, but in the second film we've made you see he's a little more ironic from time to time. But as I say, that's just work in progress.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Self, Ironic, Wish

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

  Ian Rankin

  Book, Writing, Adventure

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• The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained. People are of two kinds, really: from the Valley, and from Elsewhere.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Self, Class

  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2011). “Colored People”, p.52, Vintage

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• Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.

  Veronica Lake

  Girl, Self, Giving

  Veronica Lake, Donald M. Bain (1971). “Veronica”

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• Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.

  Leonard Woolf

  Self, Musical, Records

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• I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection is very artful. But there's something I liked about the image of a skater going in this endless twisted circle that doesn't have any real endpoint. So the object is not to stop or arrive anywhere; it's just to make this thing as beautiful as they can.

  Elliott Smith

  Beautiful, Real, Thinking

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• Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Self, Desire

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.

  Aberjhani

  Beauty, Passion, Self

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• I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.

  FKA twigs

  Self, Want, Wells

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Civilization, Village

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani (1970). “Modern V. Ancient Civilization”, Bombay : Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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• If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Thinking, Self, Issues

  "Interview with United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Ian Somerhalder". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 01, 2014.

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• Jordan Ruddes does [have a home studio], but it's all self-contained. I'll be the only guy with a fully built recording studio. So they'll have to come to me.

  John Petrucci

  Home, Self, Guy

  Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• You have to design a story that might appear on the front page of the newspaper for the website. You don't have to design it in such a way that it can be self contained, that it makes sense if you never hit the front page of it.

  Khoi Vinh

  Self, Design, Way

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• I was aware that I had to pay off things in a convincing emotional fashion, that I had to address the lingering plot points in some real tangible sense, and that I had to make this a self-contained novel, in case I'm run over by a bus tomorrow or in case there's no demand for anyone to ever see a sequel. (Two things that I hope don't happen, incidentally.)

  Tod Goldberg

  Running, Fashion, Real

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

  Patti Smith

  Self, Cameras, World

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