Figures Quotes - Page 34

• Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty.

  Reinaldo Arenas

  Homosexual, Leonardo

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• You know I won't be no stick-figure, silicone Barbie doll

  Meghan Trainor

  Barbie Dolls, Sticks, Knows

  Song: All About That Bass, Album: Title

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• You can't be great at everything, but you are world-class at something. Go. Figure out what that is. It's how you win.

  Josh Linkner

  Winning, Class, World

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2011

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• The only advice I can give you… is to examine who you are… Figure out what’s important to you. Know yourselves. Know what’s in your heart. Don’t be swayed by fear or history or the opinions of outsiders. Find your own truth. It will lead you to the things you love.

  J-Ax

  Heart, Giving, Advice

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• Boys, boys, boys. Boys buy the little spinny tops, they but the action figures, girls buy princesses, we're not selling princesses.

  Paul Dini

  Girl, Princess, Boys

  "Blood-Boiler of the Day: TV Show Canceled for Having Too Many Smart, Interesting Girl Characters" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. December 19, 2013.

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• I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do.

  Scott Foley

  Growing Up, Thinking, Lucky

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

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• So many things suddenly made sense for the clowns, for the whole idea. I’d been going through a struggle, particularly after 9/11; I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to say. I still wanted the work to be the same kind of mixture – intense, with a nasty side or an ugly side, but also with a real pathos about the characters – and clowns have an underlying sense of sadness while they’re trying to cheer people up. Clowns are sad, but they’re also psychotically, hysterically happy.

  Cindy Sherman

  Cheer, Real, Struggle

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• Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore.

  Kristen Bell

  Mirrors, Littles, Might

  Interview with Tim Leong, timleong.com. April 2008.

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• I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

  Katherine Heigl

  Sick, Trying, Guessing

  "Katherine Heigl On How “Knocked Up” Is Sexist, Ratings Ploys And Mormonism". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.

  Josh Gad

  Powerful, Thinking, Stories

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• I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go out with a meathead? No.

  Rose McGowan

  People, Work Out, Favors

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• My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Dad, Father, Champion

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. August 15, 2012.

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• When I was 17 until, I don't know, 20, I had this massive, baseless confidence. This very clear idea of myself and how I would achieve success, which involved making decisions. I saw myself picking up the phone and saying 'Absolutely not' or 'Definitely yes.' Having control. Except you have to figure out whether the way you think at 19 or 20 has any value. And eventually I understood, with all that control, which was probably illusory, I wasn't progressing. So now I'm relinquishing a bit. I'll be a tiny bit naked.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Phones, Ideas

  "Robert Pattinson Shows Us His Sexy Side in Details". Details Magazine, www.popsugar.com. February 13, 2010.

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• I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

  David Oyelowo

  Historical, Black, Legacy

  "'In my head, this is massive'". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2005.

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• Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.

  Kerry Washington

  Support, Directors, Different

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• Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

  Pharrell Williams

  Feelings, Want, Feels

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

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• At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orleans. Would you let your own mother die because it didn't make financial sense to spend the money to treat her, or because you were too busy to spend the time to heal her sick spirit?

  Tom Piazza

  Mother, New Orleans, Sick

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• Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna figure out that Superman is Clark Kent?' - it's really hard to get involved in that on anything other than a craft level. And I'm not gonna put down craftsmanship; it is a noble enough thing to have made a table that you can pound on and it doesn't fall down. But occasionally, we might have an assignment that engages some other parts of ourselves, and those tend to be the good stories.

  Dennis O'Neil

  Real, Fall, Writing

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• She's only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Eye, Emotional, Two

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• Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.

  Conrad Hyers

  Family, Children, Irritation

  Conrad Hyers (2003). “The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith: A Celebration of Life and Laughter”, p.79, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.'

  Laura Mvula

  Dad, Cocky, Thinking

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• The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  God, Men, Mind

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.212, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

  Catherine Keener

  People, Bottom, Driveway

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• Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

  Spike Jonze

  Emotion, Messy, Hard

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• All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.

  Hill Harper

  Passion, Heart, Journey

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