Odd Quotes - Page 26

• I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Believe, Voice, Quirky

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• I've got an odd, negative bond with C. Montgomery Burns. He reminds a lot of people of bosses they've worked for. He certainly reminds me of someone I'm working for.

  Harry Shearer

  People, Boss, Negative

  "Harry Shearer: The Voices in My Head". Interview with Tim Noakes, www.dazeddigital.com. May 14, 2015.

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• It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  God, Believe, Names

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions are tough and the process is so immersive, and then it stops, and then there's nothing. So you have to find ways of making you feel productive when you're not actually producing anything. For a young person, that's really challenging.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Challenges, Acting, Way

  "Turning 50? It's better than the alternative" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2007.

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• At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd

  Walt Whitman

  Poetry, Likes, Polish

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• I've had such an odd career.

  Sally Field

  Careers

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• I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.

  Anthony Burgess

  Life, Mean, Thinking

  Anthony Burgess (2013). “One Hand Clapping”, p.91, Profile Books

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• What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

  Douglas Coupland

  Exactly Is, People, Alive

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• When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry whether people will like or approve of their creative expression. It's none of your business. It's your business to stay present and focused for the work of your deepest dreams. It might look crooked or strange, or be very odd- but if it delights you, then it is yours, and will find its way into other hearts.

  Sark

  Dream, Song, Heart

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• To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.

  Victor Hugo

  Cities, Two, Paris

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.9

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• The more Discovery Channel you watch, the less chance you have of ever meeting a woman. Because it fills your head with odd facts that can come out at any moment. "Hello. Did you know Hitler was ticklish? That sea otters have four nipples? Wait - don't run away!"

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Running, Discovery

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• The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.

  John Steinbeck

  Running, Book, Writing

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Long Valley”, p.7, Penguin

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• I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.

  Tony Curtis

  Years, Made

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• The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.

  John Major

  Country, Army, Years

  "Former PM John Major: 'British don't turn tail' from terror". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.

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• Sometimes I think with the telephone that if I concentrate enough I could pour myself into it and I'd be turned into a mist and I would rematerialize in the room of the person I'm talking to. Is that too odd for you?

  Nicholson Baker

  Thinking, Talking, Rooms

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• 90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?

  Bob Geldof

  Heart, Divorce, Discontent

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• I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.

  Colin Hay

  Mean, Years, Careers

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• I've seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did I believe a word? To be honest, I didn't understand much, but I loved watching the presentation.

  Simon Baker

  Country, Believe, Broken

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

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• It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

  Bill Condon

  New York, Odd Things, Indiana

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• Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

  Steve Coogan

  Appreciation, America, Done

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 17, 2009.

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• I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on.

  John Dykstra

  Dvds, Color, Way

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• I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.

  Paul Dano

  Jobs, School, Acting

  "MC's Crush of the Month: Paul Dano". Interview with Leslie Barrie, www.marieclaire.com. April 3, 2009.

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• I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.

  Danny Elfman

  Thinking, Differences, Understanding

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• It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.

  Craig Reucassel

  Suicide, Islamic, Movement

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• I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment.

  Julie Bowen

  Zero, Crazy, People

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