Asking Quotes - Page 33

• When you're asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Sexy, Men, Years

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: 'There Is Always a Backlash'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

  Nicholas Lemann

  Successful, Skills, Support

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• I lean on a lot of drivers. I have a dirt racing background so I gravitate towards asking for advice from drivers who also dirt race, people like Clint Bowyer since dirt racers seem to have a similar driving style and like the car set up similarly.

  Austin Dillon

  Race, Car, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The format's limitations are its strengths. We can't show you the monster, but why would we want to? Your imagination is a darker and scarier place than anything that can get generated on a computer. Asking the audience to use their imaginations makes it a much more personal and interactive experience.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Imagination, Monsters, Use

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• We usually start by asking the collaborators to submit a couple of ideas. Then, Larry and I will sort through all the submissions and choose the ones based on what we think will add most to the collection. Once the scripts are written, the stages are: rehearse, record, edit, sound design, foley and finally, the mix.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Couple, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I am very interested in asking questions, and I am very interested in being involved in shows that ask people to think and feel.

  Thomas Sadoski

  Thinking, Asking Questions, People

  "Thomas Sadoski Talks THE SLAP, Why He Wanted the Role, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 20, 2015.

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• I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before he starts writing it and asking himself if it is all right as a story. I mean, once you go saying to yourself, 'This is a pretty weak plot as it stands, but I'm such a hell of a writer that my magic touch will make it okay,' you're sunk. If they aren't in interesting situations, characters can't be major characters, not even if you have the rest of the troop talk their heads off about them.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Believe, Character, Mean

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• When I began my pilgrimage I left the Los Angeles area without a cent, having faith that God would provide me with everything I needed. Although I have never asked for anything, God has provided me with everything along the way. Without ever asking for anything I've been supplied.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Have Faith, Way, Los Angeles

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.127, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I walk until given shelter, fast until given food. I don't ask - it's given without asking. Aren't people good! There's a spark of good in everybody, no mater how deeply it may be buried. It's waiting to govern your life gloriously.

  Peace Pilgrim

  People, Waiting, Shelter

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.25, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Over the years, I've found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing. A simple rule. If you tell yourself you are going to be at your desk tomorrow, you are by that declaration asking your unconscious to prepare the material. You are, in effect, contracting to pick up such valuables at a given time. Count on me, you are saying to a few forces below: I will be there to write.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Simple, Years

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• Obviously, my tastes and my priorities have changed. But I'm still asking the question 'Why?' Just because I'm a mother doesn't mean I'm not still a rebel and that I don't want to go in the face of convention and challenge the system. I never wanted to think in a robotic way, and I don't want my children to think that way, either.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mother, Children, Mean

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• I'm going to approach it as trying to do my best, but you can't do everything yourself. That's asking for bad things to happen.

  Mark Mulder

  Trying, Approach, Happens

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• If you want to understand a difficult or trying person, begin by asking the question: 'What is the wound they are trying to heal?'

  Mardy Grothe

  Trying, Want, Difficult

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• When we ask God to transform those who oppose us, we are also asking God to transform us.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Asking God, Asks

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• Saints rarely have friends; they are usually hated and derided, for they love and love is always rejected by hard-hearted men....saints do not advertise themselves; good men do not seek out a name in the world....the saints did what they did almost in stealth, asking nothing except that men love God.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Love Is, Men, Names

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• My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Hair, Neon, Trouble

  "Take a Jail Break! Orange Is The New Black's Natasha Lyonne and Yael Stone Reveal Exclusive Secrets from the Set". Interview with Sharon Clott Kanter, www.instyle.com. Jun 05, 2014.

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• Entertainers are nothing special. Maybe we have a talent for singing a song, but other people have talents. I wish fans would just come up and say 'hello' before asking for an autograph. I wish they would just say, 'Hello, I'm so and so, and I just want to shake your hand.' I'm impressed when I find people like that. Most people just say, 'Sign here,' and treat you like a statue.

  Eddy Arnold

  Song, Hands, People

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• No windows give a better view than those a man brings with him in his head, not asking for tickets of admission, since at all functions, festivals, or feasts he looks out with the same nice self-composure.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Nice, Men, Self

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• Asking the right questions is as important as answering them

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Important, Asking The Right Questions, Right Questions

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• We are trained to ask "What's wrong and how we fix it?" Instead, start by asking - "What works, what have we got, what's possible and who cares?"

  Peter Kenyon

  Who Cares, Care, Asks

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• If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.

  Tom Peters

  People, Important, Cups

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• Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the Universe to make sense!

  David Brin

  Fine, Make Sense, Universe

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• I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Thinking, Lazy, Problem

  Source: collider.com

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• What I like to do is to give my real name in Starbucks but be really hostile each time, as if they're asking me something that I've never heard in my life. I give them a really dirty look, "Really? It's Natasha. Okay?" Like I've never been to Starbucks before. Each time. I enter the premises looking for combat.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Real, Dirty, Names

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either.

  Edgar Fiedler

  Answers, Topics, Sample

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