Layers Quotes - Page 10

• Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.

  Kim Chernin

  Giving Up, Lying, Long

  Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there for me. I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience.

  William Gibson

  Powerful, Thinking, Buried

  "William Gibson Globe and Mail Story". Interview with Cory Doctorow, craphound.com. November 23, 1999.

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• Guys who are larger than life and theatrical and deliciously unpredictable - they're far more interesting than the good guys most of the time. They have these psychological layers that an audience can really cling on to, become fascinated with, much more so than these true-blue, one-dimensional, square-jawed good guys.

  Ron Perlman

  Squares, Blue, Interesting

  Source: www.gq.com

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• as a physician I examine the dying planet as I do a dying patient. The earth has a natural system of interacting homeostatic mechanisms similar to the human body's. If one system is diseased, like the ozone layer, then other systems develop abnormalities in function - the crops will die, the plankton will be damaged, and the eyes of all creatures on the planet will become diseased and vision impaired.

  Helen Caldicott

  Eye, Ozone, Vision

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we may. Life in a small town is like a layer cake. One gets the whole of it, frosted top, lemon filling and all.

  Laura E. Richards

  Cake, Joy, Sorrow

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• In India the human being is a symphonic theme. 'The people' is not a compact, close-knit concept, but a sprawling one, flowing not only into different walks of life, but into the intricately woven multi-layers of privilege, wealth, and education. 'The people' created by Gandhi is a young concept.

  Nayantara Sahgal

  People, India, Different

  Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

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• When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.

  Wallace Shawn

  Children, Reality, People

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

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• Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

  Rufus Sewell

  Disappointment, Depth, Compromise

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• Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs?

  Mark Cuban

  Crazy, Three, Chance

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• I live in L.A., so layers are essential to my wardrobe. I like slim silhouettes, typically, and I love good tailoring.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Silhouettes, Essentials, Slim

  "Michelle Monaghan on Her Bad Marriage with Woody Harrelson in HBO's New Cult Series 'True Detective'" by Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. January 24, 2014.

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• My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Moving, Unique

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• My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life. ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.

  Radka Donnell

  Art, Quilts, Silence

  Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns

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• Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Writing, Adjectives And Adverbs, Care

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• It's so easy to demagogue the issue and make someone who speaks out against the internal-combustion engine sound like an insane communist, when the truth is that the internal-combustion engine is the biggest threat to my life in the next 25 years, in terms of what it's doing to our environment and how it's depleting the ozone layer and so forth.

  Bill Maher

  Speaks Out, Issues, Ozone

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In the deeper layers of the modern consciousnessevery attempt to succeed is an act of aggression, leaving one alone and guilty and defenseless among enemies: one is punished for success. This is our intolerable dilemma: that failure is a kind of death and success is evil and dangerous, is--ultimately--impossible.

  Robert Warshow

  Success, Evil, Leaving

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• And I felt more like me than I ever had, as if the years I'd lived so far had formed layers of skin and muscle over myself that others saw as me when the real one had been underneath all along, and I knew writing- even writing badly- had peeled away those layers, and I knew then that if I wanted to stay awake and alive, if I wanted to stay me, I would have to keep writing.

  Andre Dubus

  Real, Writing, Years

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• When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.

  Lauren Groff

  Writing, World, Building

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• You can't remove that layer of pain by just saying, "Okay, I'm not going to wallow in it." The only way to remove that layer of pain is to face what it says and to recognize it as the look in the mirror that it is, reflecting the things you did that you wish you hadn't done and the things you didn't do that you wish you had done.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Mirrors, Wish

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Meanwhile someone is shining my head to get it dry to attach my top-hat to my head with toupee tape. I get into microphone and get back up into my dressing room for the rest of my costume. I get snapped into all these things and layers and bundled up. I walk downstairs to the pit. Someone hands me my baton (which lights up like a wand) and I watch the first three minutes of the show. Then I come up out of the pit and there I am.

  Tituss Burgess

  Hands, Light, Shining

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Since graveyards are often built over older burial grounds, I assume Dolores Park was probably an Indian, (an Ohlone) graveyard before that. I think the fact that it has so many layers underneath the contemporary one intrigues me.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Thinking, Facts, Parks

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• My two young producers, Fernando Perdomo and Chris Price, had to explain to me that there's a division right now between the two sides. They took three living, breathing percussionists to do the beats on the song "Intensity". We've got all kinds of layers, because I kept saying we didn't get all the beats. If you hear a synth, it's because I put my foot down. But I had to fight for it because they wanted it all totally organic.

  Linda Perhacs

  Song, Fighting, Two

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2014.

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• I got really excited about finding new ways of using video, and the immediacy is different, in a way, than painting and photography. The creativity comes with the editing. You can layer and cut and paste. I really love that it's like another form of making my smaller collages but in video form.

  Mickalene Thomas

  Photography, Creativity, Cutting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want to do a stripped-down album. That style is actually where my heart is - storytelling and just letting the voice and the lyrics talk for themselves. I still want to write the perfect song and sing it in the most honest, undressed way. But I feel like I have to gather more experiences and more layers in my voice. I have to live more to be able to tell this tale. So I'm saving my folk record. I have a feeling nobody will understand it.

  Lykke Li

  Song, Writing, Heart

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't like to plan harmonies too much, because there's something fun that happens when you just sing a pass, then sing another pass, and layer them on top of each other.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Fun, Too Much, Harmony

  "She & Him". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2010.

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• I think it's too easy to just say that there is a direct and necessary conflict between black identity and gay identity. I think it's more nuanced than that simply because I think black is a color and then people layer on top of it all kinds of socio-cultural elements.

  John Amaechi

  Gay, Thinking, Color

  "Big Think Interview With John Amaechi". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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