Broken Quotes - Page 36

• I think there`s so much of us broken for Americans and particularly African-Americans. I think it`s impossible to separate fully some 50-plus allegations of sexual misconduct or sexual assault from Bill Cosby is as a philanthropist or an actor.

  Jamilah Lemieux

  Thinking, Impossible, Philanthropist

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.

  Paul Auster

  Summer, New York, Writing

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.

  Moby

  Shells, Kind, Endearing

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Character, Differences, Tape

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I will reform our broken visa system. Nearly half of the people in this country illegally came here on legal visas and simply never left. We need to fix that.

  Carly Fiorina

  Country, People, Reform

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book was that I loved the poetry of broken English. Broken English and vernacular. It just floored me that you can actually capture the way people really talked. And I also really connected to the social class element.

  Matt de la Pena

  Book, Color, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One path I've used a lot is to deeply and thoughtfully consider a trope or a tradition, and then set about taking it apart - but only in the service of a character or story that deserves it. Another path I often employ is to put form into "play" - to set it free from its ordinary constraints and let it be free-floating and broken-apart and rearranged.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Character, Play, Ordinary

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.

  Lauren Groff

  Historical, Eras, Rough Times

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like "f**'ed up childhood" or "broken home," none of them sound good. Were our childhoods better or worse? I don't know. It's different.

  Bucky Sinister

  Home, Childhood, Sound

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We can have our hearts broken over so much more. It is important to recognize the full spectrum of heartbreak. We can be heartbroken by lost and by disappointment. But heartbreak is not just this negative image we see, it's not this terrible experience that brings no benefits.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Heartbroken, Disappointment, Important

  "The Rumpus Interview With Sandra Cisneros". Interview with Olivia, therumpus.net. January 13, 2016.

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• Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.

  Jon Weisman

  Party, Cutting, Circles

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country.

  Valerie June

  Girl, Country, Together

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not Pollyanna - I know that my personality and my opinions and how I approach the teaching of writing maybe isn't exactly how it's done traditionally in the academy...wherever that academy is...but, you know, the academy is broken as it relates to many creative writing programs.

  Tod Goldberg

  Teaching, Writing, Personality

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You don't know how people are going to respond. But I would add to that, that getting your heart broken is not the worst thing and it's actually quite unavoidable. I think in some ways I had to break my father's heart and then face that in order to have a real relationship with him.

  Melissa Febos

  Father, Real, Heart

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman.

  Jessie Kahnweiler

  People, Eating Disorder, Shells

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Jessie Kahnweiler – ‘The Skinny’". Interview with Sian Melton, www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2016.

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• I now realize that a broken back, failed surgery, and Stage IV cancer are three of the greatest things that ever happened to me. Three of the most positive, transformative things that ever happened to me. They helped me become a vastly better person than I ever was, and I am eternally grateful for that.

  Brad Willis

  Cancer, Grateful, Three

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Immigration, Stories, Painful

  "Immigration Battle". "FRONTLINE", www.pbs.org. October 20, 2015.

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• When I saw this Broken Kilometer, it reminded me of these 1,000 Buddhas. That piece is 1,000 one-meter gold rods, and this is 1,000 pieces of gold gilded wooden sculpture. In terms of design, it's up to the space's character.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Character, Space, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing up in Oakland, a white kid, from this kind of generation of broken homes and listening to hip-hop.

  Moshe Kasher

  Growing Up, Kids, Home

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I've done things to my body, mechanically, that I'll never do again. I've done stunts that I shouldn't have done 10, 11, 12 times. I've broken a ton of bones on sets.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Done, Body, Bones

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• In your 20s, you're checking your bank account to make sure you're not broke. In your 30s, you're looking at yourself and realizing you're broken.

  Paul Rust

  Realizing, Bank Accounts, Broke

  "Meet the Star of 'Love,' Judd Apatow’s New Netflix Series". Interview with Grace Wilson, www.motherjones.com. February 28, 2016.

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• Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Thinking, Feet, Overcoming

  "Zero". Live chat, www.slate.com. March 15, 2016.

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• We're not really sure why it [broken circadian rhythm] continues, but when they become adults, we usually have to treat it because many people need to get up early to go to work and they can't be sleeping until 11:00 or 12:00. So we use treatments like bright light therapy, melatonin, things like that that are very effective.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Light, Up Early

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Narcolepsy is a disorder that affects many different areas of life. So in typical patients with narcolepsy, they have something called "excessive daytime sleepiness." So, they're very sleepy during the day. Yet, at night, they're still sleepy, but their sleep is very broken.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Night, Typical

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Strong, Uncles, Growing Up

  Source: www.gq.com

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