Complicated Quotes - Page 38

• It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

  Edie Falco

  Cutting, Issues, Fame

  Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. April 6, 2012.

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• The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

  Manny Farber

  Sleep, Curiosity, Detectives

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.564, Library of America

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• It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.

  Laura San Giacomo

  Fun, Intense, Get Real

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Fall, Thinking, Rivers

  "Los Bros Hernandez". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2005.

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• I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.

  Sebastian Junger

  Real, Thinking, Bridges

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• I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Block, Character, Progress

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• It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.

  Neil Jordan

  Dark, Journey, Opposites

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• The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Healthcare Reform, Issues, President

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• I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

  Rachel Kushner

  Character, People, Childhood

  "I Am a Camera: An Interview with Rachel Kushner" by Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. June 11, 2013.

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• The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from tendinitis since I was 13, and it flared up again until the pain was paralyzing. There were times I prayed I'd be sick so I wouldn't have to go on.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Pain, Years, Sick

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• I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

  Jenny Lawson

  Book, Writing, Simple

  "'Let's Pretend This Never Happened' by Jenny Lawson". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. April 17, 2012.

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• My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

  Laura Marling

  Simple, Water, Down And

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  Natalia Makarova

  Simple, Giving, Perfection

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.

  Paula Malcomson

  Opportunity, Complicated Relationship, Way

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• Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Angel, Risk, Actresses

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• I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?

  Richard Madden

  Trying, Aspect, Honestly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Diversity, Challenges

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• I am a very complicated person.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Persons

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• Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Ideas, Normal, Otherness

  "Meshell Ndegeocello And Toshi Reagon Discuss Civil Rights, A Modern Day Civil War, And More". Interview with Toshi Reagon, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.

  Richard Neal

  People, Together, Today

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• I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.

  Leo Ornstein

  Thinking, Trying, Pieces

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• What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Sports, Gymnastics, Thinking

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• The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.

  Moby

  Ideas, World, Ontology

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• The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Islamic, Church, Littles

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• I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.

  Graham Russell

  Song, Simple, People

  "Air Supply’s Graham Russell on Lost in Love , the Musical". Interview with Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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