Moments Quotes - Page 33

• Making music, being creative in some primal way, should be fun. Listening to it or playing it can and should take you out of yourself for some brief blissful moments.

  Simon Price

  Fun, Creative, Listening

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There's this moment sometimes, when you do a crossword puzzle and you have the one really long word. And once you get that, the whole thing kind of comes into focus. Sometimes it's just working things over in your mind and then finding that one line that kind of ties the song together, and now it works. It's a puzzle of sorts.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Ties, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you do not bother to take the time to compose and to light properly, then you end up with something almost less than reality. You end up without the soul, the heart, the art of the moment.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Art, Reality, Light

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In my later novels, I systematically used the convention, and then a moment came - when did it come? With The Book of Illusions, maybe - I thought, I don't need them anymore, I don't need them, I want to integrate the dialogue into the text.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Needs, Want

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• I definitely feel moved and affected after interviews, but not in a way that's anything other than positive. There are moments that make me want to cry, but not in any way I can't handle.

  Alison Rosen

  Want, Way, Interviews

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You're growing and changing, and eventually, you can go from having all these friends to feeling like you have no one, because you've been betrayed, or you've gone through things. But in this moment, I'm in such a good place with my friends. I feel confident and I'm happy there are people who I can truly trust in my life.

  Selena Gomez

  People, Feelings, Gone

  "Exclusive Interview: Selena Gomez". Interview with Neha Gahdhi, www.seventeen.com. May 3, 2011.

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• I never thought in a million years that I'd ever sell out back-to-back shows at The Garden. That's not to say, I never expected my career to take off. Still, it was a "Pinch Me, Wake Me Up" moment. I was like, "Wow! I can't believe this. That I'm actually here, and this is actually happening." And in that moment, when I was about to thank my fans for supporting me, I noticed that they were standing up clapping. It was overwhelming, and became a very emotional moment when I tried to thank them.

  Kevin Hart

  Believe, Emotional, Garden

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• Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind of event and the essential is to keep the peace in yourself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Breathing, Trying, Events

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• I do notice that my songs fit all over the map, even in terms of the colloquialisms in them. The songs come out with their references intact, almost unheeded by me. It's like they existed somehow before they met me with their relationship to the tradition, and then they just end up coming through me at that moment because of my relationship to some certain kind of music that I've listened to in my life. I know that sounds a little bit woooey.

  Mirah

  Song, Sound, Maps

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.

  Dani Shapiro

  Fighting, Car, Baths

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When a writer's whole being is poured into a piece of work, there is never enough. The feeling of finally getting to the end of a piece of work, of making it as good as you can at that moment, is more of a relief than anything else, and then you wait for reviews.

  Dani Shapiro

  Waiting, Feelings, Relief

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you have a family, even though you might move a lot, you collect all of these things. It's the detritus of your family and they become the symbols of your family life, and your unit out in the world. In that moment I wanted to allude to the fact that the way my parents' relationship was falling apart was impacting me and my brother, my parents, but also our symbols.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Brother, Moving, Fall

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A word, and all the infinite fluctuations it may possess. Like that moment when you know you have something to say, and you know you're speaking, even, but you still have no idea how you will say it. Or the moment when, as a reader, you're reading, and you are understanding what you are reading, but still have utterly no idea what will come next for you, what precisely the author wants to say. For me, that is the ultimate level of literary depth, of literary density.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Reading, Ideas, Understanding

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Fiction, Function

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• So you're just moving along and suddenly you get this moment that breaks your ability to continue, and yet you continue. I wanted those kinds of moments. And initially people would say, "I don't think I have any." Their initial reaction was to render invisible those moments weaved into a kind of everydayness.

  Claudia Rankine

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not comfortable, for myself and for others. And yet, one has these people whom you trust, have faith in, whom you believe see what you see, and then you come up against a moment where you feel suddenly tossed out. So I was really interested in those moments.

  Claudia Rankine

  Believe, People, Have Faith

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My tendency is to want to say to the person, "Do you understand why I feel this way?" I usually do say that. And sometimes it doesn't go well. By this I mean we hit an impasse again. Not that I need to hear exactly what I want to hear, but I need to know I am heard. Those moments make for a better friendship. But I can't let it go. For good or bad.

  Claudia Rankine

  Mean, Let It Go, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the book I'm writing at the moment.

  Nelson DeMille

  Book, Writing, Events

  Talk City Network Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2000.

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• The truce is that. You forgive all of these moments because you're constantly waiting for the moment when you will be seen. As an equal. As just another person. As another first person. There's a letting go that comes with it.

  Claudia Rankine

  Letting Go, Waiting, Forgiving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to you in a place you didn't expect it to happen?" I wasn't interested in scandal, or outrageous moments. I was interested in the surprise of the intimate, or the surprise of the ordinary.

  Claudia Rankine

  People, Ordinary, Lots Of Friends

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.

  Paul Auster

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy, Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That's why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in 'The Good Life.' She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn't glamorous. She wasn't clever. But she was a good partner. That's too easy, too perfect.

  Felicity Kendal

  Clever, Good Life, Thinking

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• Being a writer means I sit in a dark (and pretty dank) room off my garage for many hours a day, and in my wallowing moments I can feel as if I'm already on the outside of society, peering wistfully in.

  Lauren Groff

  Mean, Dark, Rooms

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

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• Make your life a masterpiece: Step beyond the demands of the moment and begin right now to design and live the life you deserve.

  Tony Robbins

  Live Life, Design, Demand

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• Hence, when some members of the Iranian diaspora, especially women at the moment, use different tropes including the trope of the veil and the issue of gender to construct an image of oppression or to describe the 'silenced' Iranian woman, western intellectuals, policymakers, and publishing houses are all quick to introduce them as presenters of the authentic Iranian experience.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Issues, Publishing House, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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