Living Room Quotes - Page 8

• Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package.

  Jon Katz

  Dog, Kids, Rooms

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• I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since I have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a nonexistent tree I think I am entitled to speak for the field mouse.

  Loren Eiseley

  Flower, Thinking, Effort

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• I wanted to make a very cohesive-sounding album. Anyone who has listened to me and brought me into their living rooms and their bedrooms - I am making this for them.

  Kevin Drew

  Albums, Rooms, Bedroom

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 15, 2013.

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• I always loved watching and reading family-friendly mysteries growing up, like the shows Murder, She Wrote and Nancy Drew, and am thrilled to be bringing these New York Times best-selling books right into your living room on the small screen.

  Candace Cameron

  New York, Growing Up, Book

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• A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin "Hindenburg," in 1937 . . .

  R. W. Apple

  Media, Hindenburg, Hints

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• Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.

  Mary Blakely

  Baseball, Kids, Boys

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• Diane Coffee is just the part of me that has always been a performer. It's something that's always been there and Diane Coffee is just the name I've given her for this project. But I was always the one who would raid mom's closet and get all dressed up and put on crazy weird shows in the living room or film little movies.

  Shaun Fleming

  Mom, Crazy, Coffee

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• From when I was born, my dad would dance with me in his arms, and I would watch my siblings dancing around in the living room. I just grew up with that. That was just my life.

  Julianne Hough

  Dad, Sibling, Dancing

  "Julianne Hough Talks FOOTLOOSE, ROCK OF AGES and LAMB OF GO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 14, 2011.

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• Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.'

  Don Henley

  Song, Dad, Hero

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• I don't think anybody should go through life without a team of psychologists. I have been through times when I'm literally squatting in the living room, having one of those open-throated cries, where you're crying all the way to your butthole. I always believed I would come out of it, though.

  Jim Carrey

  Life, Team, Thinking

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• All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.

  Martha Stewart

  New York, Home, House

  "Martha Stewart is Editing Your Life (That Includes You, Bill Gates)". Interview with Beatriz Colomina and Rem Koolhaas, www.wired.com. June 1, 2003.

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• There's something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you're talking to someone. The biggest source of stress in my life is the screen, the blogging.

  Jessica Valenti

  Stress, Talking, Laptops

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• Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption. It is the Gospel in my living room.

  Katie Davis

  Beautiful, Adoption, Rooms

  Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.

  Ben Folds

  Animal, Class, Piano

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• The difference is in Hostel it's in the theatre - it's in public but it's in a private place. You have to actively make a choice to want to go see it. It's not being forced on anyone. Whereas 24 you can be flipping channels and it's right there in your living room. Anyone has access to that. But that just shows how mainstream it is and how people are seeing this stuff on YouTube. People are scared of it. This is a subject matter that everyone's talking about and everyone's thinking about, particularly in American culture.

  Eli Roth

  Thinking, Talking, Differences

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.

  Gabe Newell

  Thinking, Views, Games

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

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• Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - .BANG! - there you are in someone's living room.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Light, Bangs, Television

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• I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.

  Josephine de La Baume

  Beautiful, Brother, Parent

  "Josephine de la Baume on Mark & "Dreamcore" Style". Interview with Lauren Houssin, www.elle.com. May 16, 2011.

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• Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.

  Anne Tyler

  Reading, Writing, Acid

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• ••When I walk across my living room from my chimney to my window, it takes me 10 seconds, but for a bird it takes one second, and for oxygen zero seconds!

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Zero, Oxygen, Bird

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• The biggest considerations I had were practical: how do you move such a large number of actors around a small space? So, for example, if I have to have the mother bring a pot of tea from the kitchen to the living room and serve it to the others, how do I, on a practical level, get everyone into the frame? Any decisions I made about the camera angles or movement came out of necessity, versus any sort of stylistic choice.

  Hirokazu Koreeda

  Mother, Moving, Numbers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly, and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear concurrent with Apple's announcement.

  Gabe Newell

  Apples, People, Expectations

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

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• When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Cities, Forever, Useless

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little living room in our little apartment there, and I'd skin my deer, and all the guts would go in the tub, and I'd sneak them out so my fellow students on both sides wouldn't see all that, you know. I'd clean fish up there and all.

  Phil Robertson

  Ducks, Skins, Sides

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• When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, but if you don't have a distributor, you are sitting in your living room with a great little film.

  Drew Barrymore

  Appreciate, Sitting, Littles

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