Mess Quotes - Page 37

• I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

  Lisa Unger

  Growing Up, Responsibility, Thinking

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.723, Crown

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• My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.

  Dennis Cooper

  Writing, Editing, Long

  "Go Forth (Vol.19)". Interview with Brandon Hobson and Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. December 11, 2013.

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• I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies but those are the funniest things because you can't be in control. I like to lose control as a director.

  David Gordon Green

  Kids, Animal, Directors

  Source: www.geekscape.net

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• Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.

  Thomas Lennon

  People, Stuff, Needs

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I found myself face to face with a long line of people resembling extras off the set of Night of the Living Dead: shuffling along, pale and twitching, empty cups in hand -- murderous. Miserable. No matter that the air was rich with vapors of fresh-ground beans and warm muffins; no matter that the soft piped-in Vivaldi poured over us like steamed milk. These angry zombies were rushing to work, and their eyes flashed fair warning: Don't mess with us. We haven't had our coffee.

  Joan Frank

  Coffee, Eye, Night

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• If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.

  Jo Coudert

  Revenge, Long, Risk

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.265, iUniverse

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• My wife once said that if men had to worry about who was going to clean up the mess, there'd be a lot less violence in the world.

  Donna Ball

  War, Men, Wife

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• In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.

  Selma Blair

  School, Makeup, Hair

  "Selma Blair: No hair or clothing fears". Interview with Kwala Mandel, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2008.

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• President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening.

  Don Cheadle

  Country, War, Two

  "Don Cheadle Says President Obama Should Have Been More ‘Gangster,’ Clarifies Comments". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2011.

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• You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, Thinking, Animal

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• I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Brain, Needs, Good Enough

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

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• If you're going to steal a car, don't steal a mail vehicle. They don't mess around. I mean, have fun, steal all the cars you want, but don't steal a U.S. Mail vehicle.

  Rob Huebel

  Fun, Mean, Car

  "Rob Huebel on meeting Paul McCartney and how he knows Bigfoot exists". "11 Questions" with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. January 29, 2016.

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• If you're not going to do your job, get out of here. Don't mess up my work. This is how I feed my family.

  Terrence Howard

  Jobs, My Family, Ifs

  Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I've had two jobs my whole life. I worked at FedEx for, like, two days, and I worked at Popeye's for a week. I just needed a check. It was a standard thing for people where I'm from. Well, people from there that did what I did for a living, you know what I'm saying? Go get you a quick check when you mess your money up.

  Fetty Wap

  Jobs, Two, People

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• The fact that the government had to put up hundreds of billions of dollars to Citibank in guarantees was a public declaration that Citibank was a mess. Making Citibank go through financial restructuring would not have conveyed any more different information. So it's very hard to see why it would have had that kind of a panic if it were done well.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Government, Different, Dollars

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

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• Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made a miserable mess of it.

  Robert O. Paxton

  Thinking, People, Mind

  "War Crime Investigations Among France's Release Of Vichy Documents". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times...and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for America, mind you. I kind of think we're all in a really big mess, kind of like the end days of the Roman Empire.

  Bob Colacello

  Thinking, America, Mind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Unless you completely understand the investment world, do not mess around with it. It is not something I would go anywhere near.

  Anthea Turner

  World, Investment

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• One of the nice things about being me is you show up in a town, you meet somebody interesting and entertaining, and for 48 hours, what a wonderful person to be around. You mess around, and all of that is super, super fun, and you don't have to deal with the long-term consequences of it.

  Guy Branum

  Fun, Nice, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Nature is a definite thing. But nurture is just as powerful. It can really mess with you.

  Henry Cavill

  Powerful, Nurture, Definite

  "Henry Cavill Often Wonders Why the F*ck He's Shirtless". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. February 18, 2016.

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• When I first met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her. I was thinking, Don't mess this up, man. You've gotta play your cards exactly right.

  Henry Cavill

  Girlfriend, Men, Thinking

  "Henry Cavill Often Wonders Why the F*ck He's Shirtless". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Ohioans know that he inherited a mess and created a surplus. So, on election day, John [Kasich] will prevail in Ohio.

  Tom Ridge

  Ohio, Election, Surplus

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Just the way LA is laid out - 30 miles of disparate neighborhoods - adds to the loneliness of the characters. There's a lot more space to feel isolated in. In Los Angeles, you have to meet the person, then walk out separately to your own cars, and follow the person to their neighborhood, and then pray that street parking isn't going to mess things up.

  Paul Rust

  Loneliness, Character, Space

  "Meet the Star of 'Love,' Judd Apatow’s New Netflix Series". Interview with Grace Wilson, www.motherjones.com. February 28, 2016.

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• I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds when I graduated from high school. I was a mess".

  Viola Davis

  Growing Up, School, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When I was younger, I would mess about and have a laugh with everyone. I was doing Atonement when I was about 12, and as we went to do this very serious scene, the director Joe [Wright] came up to me ... I'd been giggling right up to the beginning of the take. And he came up to me and said, "Okay, you need to be serious now." I completely idolized him.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Laughing, Directors, Needs

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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