Cutting Quotes - Page 24

• Men: don't wear the untucked shirttail. It cuts you in half, which is a very bad proportion. Think of yourself as a series of thirds. So when the shirt is tucked in, you're 1/3 on top, 2/3 on the bottom.

  Tim Gunn

  Men, Thinking, Half

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• A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.

  Al Pacino

  Reading, Doors, Play

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Humor, Hair

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• I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Political, Connections

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• Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform.

  Gerard Way

  Rip, Reality, Needs

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• The first movie I can remember seeing was The Creature From The Black Lagoon. And, I can remember hearing a radio play of Ray Bradbury's Mars Is Heaven. And when I cut my teeth on comic books, they were not the easy ones of today like Spiderman, Superman and The Hulk. they were Tales Of The Crypt, The Vaultkeeper, and that sort of thing.

  Stephen King

  Book, Play, Heaven

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Thinking, Scare

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Doubt

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• The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Ideas, Two

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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• My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Thinking, Long, Style

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc.

  Kevin Smith

  Weed, Writing, Editing

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 30, 2012.

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• The problem is that, in a world of floating exchange rates, as Italy was before the euro, if one country is subjected to a shock which requires it to cut wages, it cannot do so with a modern kind of control and regulation system. It is much easier to do it by letting the exchange rate change. Only one price has to change, instead of many.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Floating, Wages

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and they tell it in the present tense and they cut loose the pages and shuffle them around - all that kind of stuff.

  Philip Pullman

  Ordinary, Doe, Pages

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• I'm not for cutting off hands but I'm more for cutting off hands than I am for molesting children, if that's what it takes to stop it. I think that's fair.

  Tucker Carlson

  Children, Thinking, Hands

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. June 17, 2005.

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• In the past, people were going to record stores and buying albums or CDs. And the label was exposing their artist as much as possible and maybe getting them picked up by a major. Now I tell people to cut a good tune and have it up in the marketplace the next day. You better be prepared to give it away, and people will come pay to see you.

  Chuck D

  Artist, Past, Cds

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• China didn't want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul - which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless, I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.

  Ai Weiwei

  Regret, Suicidal, Technology

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!

  Agnes Varda

  Fashion, Nineteen, Said

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.

  Agnes Varda

  Hair, People, Chinese

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Then I will tape the sets and even though I`m not very successful sometimes I will try to cut out the fat and put the jokes closer together.

  David Cross

  Funny, Humor, Successful

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• I like "Rock, Paper, Scissors Two-Thirds." You know. "Rock breaks scissors." "These scissors are bent. They're destroyed. I can't cut stuff. So I lose." "Scissors cuts paper." "These are strips. This is not even paper. It's gonna take me forever to put this back together." "Paper covers rock." "Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks." There should be "Rock, Dynamite with a Cutable Wick, Scissors."

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Rocks

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Mutations are exciting. They try to fix 'em when they come out. Did you see the two-headed baby they killed last month when they tried to cut it apart? That was hilarious!

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Baby, Humor

  "Doug Stanhope: Deadbeat Hero". Comedy, 2004.

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• I tell ya, I don't get no respect ... Last week, my wife told me that she was going to cut me down to twice a month. But I thought about it, and I figured that it wasn't too bad. I know a couple of guys that she cut out completely.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Couple, Humor

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• The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been cut off from other neighborhoods.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Views, Political, Important

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• They really cut to the chase in the urologist's examination room, and I tried to laugh. If this office were a movie, it would have been rated R.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Laughing

  Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• Last time you bring me pie, I cut into it, with my tiny pie cutter, and millions of birds flew out hitting me in the eyes and the temples... it was a trick pie!

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Eye

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