Cutting Quotes - Page 32

• One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Hate, School

  Source: artisticactivism.org

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• Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.bu.edu

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• My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Passing By, Touching

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.163, Grove Press

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• The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Equality, Peasants, Cutting Off

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.254, Penguin Books India

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• I think we should only get 3 honks a month on the car horn. Then, someone cuts you off, you press the horn, and nothing happens. You're like, "Crap! I wish I hadn't seen Ricky on the sidewalk!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• You know they call corn-on-the-cob, "corn-on-the-cob", but that's how it comes out of the ground. They should just call it corn, and every other type of corn, corn-off-the-cob. It's not like if someone cut off my arm they would call it "Mitch", but then re-attached it, and call it "Mitch-all-together".

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Corn On The Cob

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• I think Pringles initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles is a laid back company. They said, "Screw it. Cut 'em up!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• I would not want to be a mobile home repo man. Those would be hard to sneak away - "Knock knock - Hi, would you go cut your grass and look that way for a half an hour?"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.

  Nicolas Cage

  Brother, Tennis, Teeth

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• If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don't know, you need to find something else to do. It really shouldn't take that long.

  Jason Aldean

  Years, Long, Needs

  "Jason Aldean interview: New country superstar keeps practical approach despite success". Interview with John Serba, www.mlive.com. February 13, 2014.

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• I was never really cut out to be a student, I prefer to actually work and get a project done and learn that way- but I have a huge respect for good teachers and even enjoy teaching...I am a conundrum!

  Holly Golightly

  Teacher, Teaching, Done

  Source: hoopercomicart.blogspot.com

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• A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song.

  Rob Zombie

  Song, Mistake, Rolling

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I had a student some years ago whose father had worked on the Manhattan Project. I had a student who had to escape this very intense, born-again fundamentalist Christian background that was very much like a cult and of course they struggle to get to Naropa. And they have cut themselves off. They don't look back.

  Anne Waldman

  Christian, Father, Struggle

  Source: logosjournal.com

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