Make Sense Quotes - Page 36

• Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.

  Neal Shusterman

  Earth, Flesh, Natural

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• Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.

  Thomas Moore

  Crazy, Issues, Problem

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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• All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

  Richard Powers

  Brain, Different, World

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• You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.

  Jim Thompson

  Book, Reading, Ideas

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• I think my work is optimistic - as much as it is pathetic and funny and sad and ridiculous, at the end of the day it's about the hope that something will go right, and the constant wishing for a world where things might start to make sense.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Optimistic, Thinking, Wish

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

  Allen Klein

  Thinking, Attention, Want

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• History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn’t fit. And often that is quite a lot.

  Paul Murray

  Different, Stories, Way

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• Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.

  James Robertson

  Blessing, Past, Desire

  James Robertson (2010). “And the Land Lay Still”, p.23, Penguin UK

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• So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

  Thomas Lynch

  Effort, Language, Situation

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• Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.

  John Madden

  Football, Passion, Years

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• Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

  Kevin Kelly

  Care, Evolution

  Kevin Kelly (1994). “Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

  Robert Morgan

  Technique, Famous Writers, Values

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• But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense.

  Jessica Mathews

  Military, Cutting, Order

  "How Will Leadership Changes Affect National Security Policy?". "PBS NewsHour", carnegieendowment.org. April 28, 2011.

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• The romance is the primary plot in a story that has two plots. The second plot is not a subplot, but one that is interwoven with the romance plot (if that makes sense.) A story needs compelling characters in a compelling plot.

  Madeline Hunter

  Character, Two, Romance

  Source: writerunboxed.com

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• When Indian musicians play a raga it's very restrictive. But, in a way these restraints are essential to liberate yourself through them, if that makes sense. I'm very much of this school of rhythm, it's the direction I'm drawn in when I'm writing and improvising.

  John McLaughlin

  Writing, School, Play

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• Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to.

  Steve McQueen

  Giving, Brain, Want

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When I do an Asian character or an Asian voice I'm doing one because that's my heritage and my family and where I come from. My family is of Korean descent and specifically North Korean descent. So it makes sense for me to talk about that issue because it's the only weapon I have to somehow avenge my family and my history.

  Margaret Cho

  Character, Issues, Voice

  "Margaret Cho Has Gone 'PsyCHO': Talking Donald Trump, Surviving Rape & More". Interview with Kevin Fallon, www.thedailybeast.com. September 25, 2015.

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• Marg Helgenberger and I were waitresses in the same restaurant in Evanston, Illinois. I'm happy to say that that restaurant has since been torn down. [...] We both had an audition for ABC soaps - different soaps, but we auditioned at the same time, and she got the part and went off to New York. Three years later, I went to L.A. So she was kind of an inspiration to me. And it makes sense that we will both be in Wonder Woman together, because we ARE Wonder Women.

  Virginia Madsen

  New York, Inspiration, Illinois

  "Virginia Madsen Is Wonder Woman's Queen Hipolyta". movieweb.com. January 07, 2009.

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• One thing I would like to do, as the director, I would really like to shoot the movie widescreen, 2.35:1, which we haven't done in any of the movies yet and I think that would really provide another opportunity for scares and suspense, particularly because since Chucky, our villain, is only two feet tall, it makes sense to define the space horizontally rather than vertically. I think that will take it to another level.

  David Kirschner

  Opportunity, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think if you had to map that out at the beginning and you said, "Right, sit down, this is what you're going to be doing," you'd probably freak out. But I'm someone who really enjoys not being himself. So if you consider that, then it all sort of makes sense.

  Eric Bana

  Thinking, Doing You, Maps

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 29, 2009.

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• I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.

  Grant Morrison

  Upset, Stories, Use

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• The hardest thing for me to do, and the best thing I've done and learned as an actor is to sacrifice being funny in certain circumstances in order to do something that makes sense for the story or the character, or emotionally.

  Jonah Hill

  Character, Sacrifice, Order

  "Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse of Superbad". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 15, 2007.

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• Most songwriting like poetry takes a careful selection of words. Sometimes you're just channeling something and a selection of words come out that you wouldn't normally say, but you come up with an assortment of words that are really special. It just makes sense even if it's normally how you wouldn't express yourself.

  Vance Joy

  Special, Sometimes, Express Yourself

  "Vance Joy’s Imaginary Dreams". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 3, 2014.

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• The only way I know as a director is to figure out what the film is about. And out of the theme and the sense of what the film is about, all those decisions start to make sense. But to find that truth within it, you have to limit your possibilities and limit your choices. That's where this visual language grows out of.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Choices, Decision, Limits

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. November 21, 2006.

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• I find it very strange doing voiceover stuff, because you find you have to enunciate and make stupid faces in order for the point to make sense, because it's playing against the deadpan Simpson face. If you're just speaking in the regular way you speak, it will sound really boring.

  Emily Blunt

  Stupid, Order, Sound

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. January 19, 2010.

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