Hands Quotes - Page 33

• I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Brain, Trying

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

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• From the very beginning I started with a beer and a cigarette because I couldn't figure out what to do with my hands. So usually I have a beer and cigarette and that's what I was doing with my hands because that looked natural and felt good.

  Ron White

  Beer, Natural, Cigarette

  Source: easterncarolinastyle.com

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• I would ask, "How can one have a technological society without research? How can one have research without researching dangerous areas? How can one research dangerous areas without uncovering dangerous information? How can you uncover dangerous information without it falling into the hands of insane people who will sooner or later destroy the human race, if not the whole of life on earth?" Who knows? God only knows!

  Pete Seeger

  Fall, Race, People

  Source: portside.org

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• People want an idol. They want royalty. They don't want a public servant. Hell no. They want someone to clap for and go, "Oh, he touched my hand at the rally!"

  Doug Stanhope

  Idols, People, Want

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• As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with.

  Hilary Swank

  Want, Able, Talent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To me, the process of writing is just reading what I've written and - like running your hand over one of those mod glass stovetops to find where the heat is - looking for where the energy is in the prose, then going in the direction of that. It's an exercise in being open to whatever is there.

  George Saunders

  Running, Reading, Writing

  The Missouri Review Interview, www.missourireview.com. June 1, 2001.

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• You have a great many things to do when you are under house arrest. On the one hand, it is more comfortable than sitting in prison; on the other hand, you have to look after a household, which is strenuous under such circumstances.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  House, Looks, Sitting

  "'We Have to Tackle This -- With Peaceful Means'". Interview with Thilo Thielke, www.spiegel.de. November 22, 2010.

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• You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Christian, Believe, Gay

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I just get excited doing shows. Off stage I am actually very feeble and must be spoon-fed because my hands are too brittle.

  Dane Cook

  Spoons, Excited, Feds

  "Dane Cook Interview". Interview with McClain Johnson, mcclainjohnson.com.

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• I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.

  John Updike

  Book, Numbers, Weapons

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• The ban is completely out of my hands. And I think in most people's minds, even if it's unrealistic to them, it's one that I left myself with no choice on.

  Lance Armstrong

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• What if you can't do what you once did, like run and jump up and down? You can walk, which is also good for your mind and mental attitude. You can do simpler exercises, like getting up and down from a chair without using your hands. You can stay fairly flexible. The most important thing is to not become sedentary.

  Richard Simmons

  Running, Attitude, Exercise

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• From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of money; a way of centralizing resources; a way of snatching rivers away from the poor and giving them to the rich. And so in a sense they've become monuments to corruption.

  Arundhati Roy

  Letting Go, Dream, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life - my molestation, my this, my horrible drug addiction - they want to tell that most important story, and they don't have the skills to tell it yet, so it ends up becoming a comedy. A powerful story told poorly becomes funny, it just makes people laugh behind their hands.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Powerful, Skills, Laughing

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• When you have so many projects to nurture, one or two get real excited and raise their hands. The reaction from it tells when it's time and where to go. I usually have about a half a dozen titles in development; researchers researching and people doing cover. I'm exploring musical vocabularies I want to explore, different genres, and constantly reading things.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Real, Reading, Two

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.

  Roberta Flack

  Song, Eye, Singing

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• God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.

  George Washington Carver

  Ifs

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• We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers?

  Wendy Kaminer

  Cutting, Thieves, Death Penalty

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• Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Heart, Giving, Doe

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.81, Delphi Classics

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• A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

  David Nicholls

  Humor, Use, Umbrella

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They inveigh against the governments of Europe, because, as they say, they favor the powerful and oppress the weak. ... [yet] you will see them with one hand hoisting the cap of liberty, and with the other flogging their slaves. You will see them one hour lecturing their mob on the indefeasible rights of man, and the next driving from their homes the children of the soil, whom they have bound themselves to protect by the most solemn treaties.

  Frances Trollope

  Children, Honesty, Powerful

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• The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never more to be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which form the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Hope, Taken, Evil

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• He who does the most good is the greatest man. Power, authority, dignity, honors, wealth and station--these are so far valuable as they put it into the hands of men to be more exemplary and more useful than they could be in an obscure and private life. But then these are means conducting to an end, and that end is goodness.

  John Jortin

  Mean, Men, Greatness

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• As a physician, I see the earth as a patient in the intensive care unit. We have an acute clinical crisis on our hands and must take urgent action. My prescription for survival is that the American people rise up as they did in the 1980s, when 80 percent of Americans supported the nuclear weapons freeze.

  Helen Caldicott

  People, Survival, Physicians

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