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• I want to be able to create characters for as long as I can and I want to tell stories for as long as I can but unfortunately I'm not given those opportunities because I'm often boxed into the former category...

  Amber Heard

  Character, Opportunity, Long

  "The Rum Diary - Amber Heard interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I won a scholarship to come to LA and compete in a modeling and talent completion and was amazed when I won it. I had never acted before in my life and won the acting category. I began to wonder what this is about and then decided to see what happened.

  Eva Longoria

  Acting, Talent, Wonder

  "The Sentinel - Eva Longoria interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters. I don't mean to imply that they're all in that category at all. There are also those who are also not motivated by ideological resistance for any role of government. But I don't know of any arguments or any presenters of arguments that overturn the consensus that I think have gained any legitimacy.

  Al Gore

  Mean, Thinking, Government

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Comedy is hard to do, and I don't know why it doesn't have its own category in awards. I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. It doesn't get respect. It's hard. It's really hard. It would be more gratifying to get something for a comedy, because it doesn't happen much or at all.

  Leslie Mann

  Drama, Thinking, Awards

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I say "on principle" [regarding 'lesbian writer'] because whenever you get one of your minority labels applied, like "Irish Writer," "Canadian Writer," "Woman Writer," "Lesbian Writer" - any of those categories - you always slightly wince because you're afraid that people will think that means you're only going to write about Canada or Ireland, you know.

  Emma Donoghue

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  "‘Room’ Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her “Deeply Feminist” Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, blogs.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• I don't care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that's going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures.

  Jack Valenti

  Movie, Father, Adults

  The New York Times, March 5, 1987.

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• My favorite place in the whole world is the city of Paris. to me, Paris stands at the frontier of every major category of travel - in food, art, theater, history, in so many different areas that I simply don't get tired of it.

  Arthur Frommer

  Art, Tired, Cities

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• There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

  Charles Stross

  War, Believe, Writing

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• There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.

  Don DeLillo

  Two, Voice, Creating

  "Masses, Power and the Elegance of Sentences". Interview with Brigitte Desalm, perival.com. October 27, 1992.

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• Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it.

  Fiona Apple

  People, Helping, Organize

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 4, 2012.

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• Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Cutting, People, Waiting

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Press conference, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• A life without love is a waste. 'Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?', don't ask yourself this question. Discrimination leads to discrimination. Love doesn't need any name, category or definition. Love is a world itself. Either you are in, at the center... either you are out, yearning.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Spiritual, Love Is, Names

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• The peak of empathogens can be characterised as earthly paradise in comparison to the heavenly paradise of LSD and hallucinogens of that category.

  Claudio Naranjo

  Hallucinogens, Paradise, Lsd

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• The thing that's interesting about storytelling is people will say, "How do I write a movie I can get sold in this category?" For God's sake, the first movie that you can get made will be your personal story, because nobody's heard it before.

  Joan Tewkesbury

  Writing, Interesting, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've made a mistake and leave. The second category is the people who give the film a chance and leave annoyed after 40 minutes. The third category includes the people that watch the whole film and return to see it again. If I'm able to persuade 33% of the audience to stay, then I can say that I've succeeded.

  Peter Greenaway

  Mistake, People, Giving

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• You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

  Duke Ellington

  Listening, Music Is

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• I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.

  Artie Shaw

  Thinking, Needs, Definitions

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• All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.

  Confucius

  Fall, Names, Understanding

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• Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties.

  Leon Trotsky

  Men, Political Will, Class

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• Specific units - such as memes are intended to represent have meaning when there is essential discontinuity between categories. Such convenient discontinuities are found in atoms, elementary particles, genes, and DNA.

  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

  Dna, Essentials, Atoms

  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Marcus W. Feldman (1981). “Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A Quantitative Approach”, p.70, Princeton University Press

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• I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Thinking, Substance, Policy

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• Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

  Wesley Morris

  Persistence, White, Males

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• I don't think of myself as fitting into a category. But I had to be careful in all of my books not to repeat things, because I have these ideas, and though the subjects were disparate, the same idea would come up through different portals.

  Melissa Holbrook Pierson

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, youre still going to get through the day. But it doesnt make you a happy person if you werent a happy person before.

  Gary David

  Worry, Car, Breaking Down

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• What you do that makes you happy and that makes your family, the people that love you, their opinion counts more than anybody out there that is putting a category on you or defining you according to the old phantasmal.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Love You, People, Defining

  Source: www.pbs.org

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