Caught Up Quotes - Page 8

• You want to see the people you've sort of come to know and love, or love to hate, you want to see them develop in some way. And I hope people get sort of caught up in that arc.

  Ricky Gervais

  Hate, People, And Love

  "'The Office' Star Ricky Gervais Back with 'Extras'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. September 22, 2005.

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• There's something about urban life - you walk out your door, and you're in a steady of stream of life happening around you, and it's very easy to get caught up in that stream and simply kind of keep on moving.

  Dani Shapiro

  Moving, Doors, Urban

  "Book Release: Devotion". Interview with Kari Wethington, www.elle.com. January 7, 2010.

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• I'm not really caught up in the whole commercial thing of Christmas. I'm probably more of a pagan than a Christian, but it's hard not to get caught up in it.

  Ian Astbury

  Christian, Pagan, Caught

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

  Pat Robertson

  Birthday, Order, Age

  "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, transcripts.cnn.com. October 9, 2005.

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• I think a lot people get caught up with the synthetic quality of electronic music, but me, I've always been more interested in all those more natural sounds, in organic electricity. That's something that I want to continue to work with.

  Patrick Wolf

  Thinking, People, Quality

  Interview with William Bowers, pitchfork.com. February 27, 2005.

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• It's easy to get caught up in a moment and think, 'Oh, I've been offered some giant studio film or a superhero franchise or some actor wants to meet with me about a project they want to do.' And it's easy to get caught up in a moment because it's flattering. But you can't do a movie because it's flattering.

  Jason Reitman

  Thinking, Superhero, Giants

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• I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

  Win Butler

  Worry, World, Caught

  "Arcade Fire". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 4, 2010.

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• You hit a guitar, you hit a note, you hit a drum, you hit an organ. Meat and potatoes. Simplicity. Not getting too caught up in little tweezers of perfection.

  Feist

  Guitar, Perfection, Simplicity

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is to changing things in the moment or finding it in rehearsal.

  Michael Cera

  Directors, Rehearsal, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.

  Leon Panetta

  People, Decision, Sometimes

  "Panetta Condemns Latest U.S. Troop Photo Scandal". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. April 18, 2012.

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• Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

  Anais Nin

  Friendship, Keys, Wife

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• You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heart, Character, Forget Everything

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• When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.

  James Crumley

  Spring, Drinking, Heart

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.10, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own ways. They're conforming to nonconformity.

  Richelle Mead

  Fashion, Kids, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.272, Zebra Books

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• Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Done

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Wilderness Tips”, p.178, Anchor

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• She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.

  Louise Erdrich

  Jobs, Mistake, Book

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• It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

  Alain de Botton

  Company We Keep, Expectations, Curiosity

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• For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

  Orson Scott Card

  People, Giving, Events

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.843, Tor Science Fiction

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• I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.

  Michael Moore

  Culture, Next, Caught

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• How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.

  Caroline Stevermer

  Life, Games, Ideas

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• I listened for the voice I knew so well, the one I always heard at the beginning. Good girl, Macy! You're doing great! You know the first steps are the hardest part! They were. Sometimes I felt so out of sync, it was all could do not to quit after a few strides. But I kept on, as I did now. I had to, to get to the next part, this part, where I finally caught up with Wes, my shadow aligning itself with his, an dhe turned to look at me, pushing his hair our of his eyes.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Eye, Hair

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• A book floated down the Amper River. A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held it in his right hand. He grinned. He stood waist-deep in the icy, Decemberish water. “How about a kiss, Saumensch?” he said.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Kissing, Boys

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.241, RH Childrens Books

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• The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

  Martin Buber

  Atheist, Window, Caught

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• Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.

  Francine Rivers

  Christian, Trying, Pushing

  Francine Rivers (2012). “The Atonement Child”, p.84, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.

  Jack London

  War, Thinking, Artist

  Jack London (1903). “Call of the Wild”, p.83

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