Larger Than Life Quotes - Page 2

• I don't think we ever sat down in the early days and said "hey lets be a band that wears make up". I think it was just natural for us. We grew up loving stuff like Alice Cooper, Kiss, The Misfits, and the more theatrical stuff. I always loved rock stars. I loved David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and these people that were larger than life and iconic. I think that is what we always wanted to do.

  Andy Biersack

  Stars, Kissing, Thinking

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• And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he really enjoys being seen as a larger-than-life tough-guy figure. He doesn't go on photographed hunting expeditions, for instance. But he does have hero moments, such as when his convoy stopped in the middle of the Bosphorus Bridge and he allegedly talked down a jumper, prevented him from committing suicide.

  Peter Kenyon

  Suicide, Hero, Character

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.

  Dave Grohl

  Real, Rocks, Looks

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.

  Dan Auerbach

  Thinking, Light, Play

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• I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the first row with no heads in front of mine, and become one with the screen. I always stay for the complete credits so I can linger in the film's story just a little longer.

  Pamela Yates

  Dark, Gathering, Watches

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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• All of the larger than life questions about our presence here on earth and what gifts we have to offer are spiritual questions. To seek answers to these questions is to seek a sacred path.

  Lauren Artress

  Spiritual, Answers, Earth

  Lauren Artress (1996). “Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice”, p.21, Penguin

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• All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.

  Patrick Stewart

  Training, Acting, Tvs

  "Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart on Waiting For Godot". Interview with Dominic Cavendish, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2009.

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• Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

  Heston Blumenthal

  People, Would Be, Shy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Love is larger than life.

  Wayne Coyne

  Love Is

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

  Leslie Easterbrook

  Mother, Character, Firefly

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

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• When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Passion, Play

  Source: www.nolivelost.com

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• People tell me the Netflix series, House of Cards, is sort of like my class come to life. The movie Margin Call portrays the realities of hierarchical relationships and rivalries beautifully, and how people respond when under pressure. Gandhi and Long Walk to Freedom both have the virtue of presenting larger-than-life figures in a more realistic way, showing their flaws and contradictions - their humanity - in a way that is very helpful.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Reality, Long Walks, Class

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• That's just me wanting that supernatural tool to tell a story and also not wanting to be restricted by reality, with how we're telling a tale, because we are a heightened reality on Hannibal. There is a larger-than-life quality to the storytelling when it gets into particulars. I like the idea of being able to dismiss reality, depending on if we can sell it as part of the story.

  Bryan Fuller

  Reality, Ideas, Quality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that.

  Maya Angelou

  Believe, Men, Trying

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• It enrages me to see only certain players singled out for the Hall of Fame because they were born with a God-given specialty. When I take my kids to the Baseball Hall of Fame, I want them to experience the full array of talents that make the game what it is today, not just the larger-than-life freaks of nature. I want them to know that you don't have to be the biggest or the strongest to reach your goals, and that hard work and perseverance are also rewarded.

  Bert Blyleven

  Baseball, Perseverance, Kids

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• Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.

  Reba McEntire

  Taught, Emotion, Sincere

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• I always feel, I guess being a product of the movies of the 40s where movies were the greatest things and screens were big and palaces were palaces and stars were larger than life that reality was so much inferior to what we felt was conceivably possible from what we had seen in the movies.

  Woody Allen

  Stars, Reality, Palaces

  CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

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• I think the idea of a heightened reality and then the fantasy that we're able to be swept up in, and then these larger than life heroes and the possibility of someone much more powerful than we are and greater, that can come and save the day, so to speak, is inspiring.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Powerful, Hero, Reality

  "Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins THOR Interview". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. May, 2011.

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• It's funny how the littlest things can make you feel larger than life; the right lyric, the most heartfelt melody, the clearest message. Love.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Heartfelt, Messages, Melody

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• Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry Packer both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was a great Australian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways he left his mark on the Australian community over a very long career in business, particularly in the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport

  John Howard

  Sports, Business, Character

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• People think that we're crazy because we do six nights a week. I would physically not be able to take it, especially when you see how much he put into every show... He created this larger than life style and he pulled it off.

  Rob Thomas

  Crazy, Night, Thinking

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• There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed up in mother's castoffs and glamour is a certain sophistication, a certain other-worldliness, a certain unattainableness, which I think we certainly calculate. We believe that a band should be slightly larger than life - you should be transported to an alternate reality. I'm giving you some really good answers here, I'm very proud of myself.

  Brian Molko

  Football, Mother, Believe

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• Really Edward Teach, Blackbeard, was actually tall, so he was literally larger than life and so he knew that and actually the more you read about him, you realize that he actually respected and knew about the theatricality and he'd rather take a ship by threatening and having the power of his personality and the threat of the oncoming danger to sway the ship to just acquiesce and just give up their cargo and so none of his crew got hurt and they would just take their bounty and he wouldn't have to kill anybody, but of course he earned that reputation, so he was no saint.

  Ray Stevenson

  Hurt, Giving Up, Personality

  Source: www.ramascreen.com

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• Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with memorable characters and filled it with the abundant warmth and wisdom that we've come to expect from this gifted storyteller.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Reading, Character, Memorable

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• What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

  Guy Ritchie

  Kids, Thinking, Suffering

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