Complication Quotes - Page 8

• My day is not that fun-filled or that filled usually with complications.

  Maria Semple

  Fun, Filled

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter of outrage that over half a million women die annually from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. This is nearly half the annual global death toll, and arguably, a direct reflection of the disempowerment of women in social, economic and political life.

  Navi Pillay

  Pregnancy, Reflection, Rights

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• ...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness

  Julian Barnes

  Depth, Difficulty, God Knows

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• Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.

  Colum McCann

  Life, People, Wish

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.285, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive. "I'm thirty-five," she said at last.

  Garth Nix

  Dog, Comforting, Unattractive

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• It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A complication must either illuminate, thwart, or alter what the character wants. A good complication puts emotional pressure on a character, promoting that character not only to act, but to act with purpose.If the circumstance does none of these things, then it's not a complication at all - it's a situation. This situation, or setup, might be interesting or even astonishing, but it gives the story no point of departure.

  Monica Wood

  Character, Writing, Emotional

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• People approach people of color with preconceived ideas. I don't think this is just restricted to white people, but I think that lots of black and white artists, when race is a subject matter, they put race or the ideology around race first. They don't see the person and the complications of the human being.

  Hilton Als

  Black And White, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them.

  Joe Morton

  Giving, Want, Film

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• I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Needs, Complicated

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• People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

  Edith Wharton

  Years, People, Trouble

  Ethan Frome ch. 7 (1911)

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• Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations.

  Liya Kebede

  Risk, Care, Way

  "This Mother’s Day" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.

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• People don't always recognize how serious it can be, that there can be some serious complications from the flu and even death. People believe they'll be down for a few days and then be fine, and that's just not the case.

  Sarah Chalke

  Believe, People, Flu

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.

  Liya Kebede

  Doctors, Play, Roles

  "Why Protests Aren’t What we Should Remember About The G8" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2010.

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• There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.

  Vernon Lee

  Hustle, Progress, Add

  Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life”

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• The lyrics to the single 'Survivor' are Destiny's Child's story, because we've been through a lot, ... We went through our drama with the members ... Any complications we've had in our 10-year period of time have made us closer and tighter and better.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Children, Drama, Destiny

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• Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

  Isaac Barrow

  Wickedness, Slander

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• When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Real, Deception, May

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). “The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Vintage

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• I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.

  Margaret Mead

  Growing Up, Stress, Book

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• That's what we're all doing: paving the way, finding the roles that have the complication instead of the one that's always got it together or the dedicated housewife or the wild one who smokes cigarettes and sleeps with anybody.

  Jane Fonda

  Sleep, Together, Roles

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Father, Careers, Ideas

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• My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  People, Choices, Complicated

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions... The simulation confuses the idea of a truth. I've always been interested in this kind of theater and illusion at the foundation of belief.

  Taryn Simon

  Photography, Ideas, Layers

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• The human mind thinks but to complicate. As soon as one problem is solved, that solution introduces new complications, other problems that perhaps did not exist before. That was one of my great troubles when I was younger, I invented many things that were very fine, but always I was getting into complications. I have had to work very hard to overcome that.

  Nikola Tesla

  Thinking, Mind, Overcoming

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• I was born an ugly duckling due to my mother's ill health. She wasn't supposed to be pregnant, there were all kinds of complications, she couldn't survive a cesarean section etc. She said, "They didn't hand me a child, they handed me a purple melon." I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, Children, Hands

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Mistake, Doctors, Physicians

  FaceBook post by Ina May Gaskin from Jun 28, 2012

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