Odd Quotes - Page 34

• I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourselves. It's a little bit surreal but kind of fun. You can play with the whole family.

  Juliet Landau

  Fun, Play, Parent

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

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• Texas is as odd as it is vast.

  Henry Rollins

  Texas

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• Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Loss, Appetite For Life, Despair

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  School, Long, People

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• I went to college in Connecticut, which was when I still lived at home. I worked at a video store, a wine store, and did odd jobs here and there like landscaping.

  Christopher Abbott

  Jobs, Home, Wine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.

  Helen McCrory

  Film, Moments

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.

  Richard Schiff

  Our Generation, Years, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Im a huge fan of The Odd Couple, yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.

  David Alan Basche

  Couple, Guy, Trying

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• we've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in eliminating disease, the more our services are out of reach of the people.

  Alice Tisdale Hobart

  People, May, Disease

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• It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.

  Maureen Daly

  Morning, Alive, Bigger

  Maureen Daly (2010). “Seventeenth Summer”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• [On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop, seeing that, to judge from church attendance, women are the more religious sex - while our criminal statistics make quite clear that they are the least wicked.

  Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

  Religious, Sex, Judging

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• Absolute freedom doesn't exist and never did. Just as we don't spit on the floor at work, swear at customers, or send out letters full of misspellings, so too we might have to 'watch our language.' It is odd that the request for unbiased language in schools and workplaces is considered intolerable when other limits on our freedom to do whatever we want are not.

  Rosalie Maggio

  School, Letters, Want

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• I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called Fridays Fingertip Fetish. It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born.

  Adrienne Bailon

  Friday, Nails, Would Be

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• How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.

  Michelle Paver

  Light, Should, Seeing

  Michelle Paver (2010). “Dark Matter: A Ghost Story”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• I’ve worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Jobs, Flower, Clothes

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Teenage, Love You, Ducks

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• My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big gathering of stuff, and I have been reading it for some forty- or fifty-odd years. There are various ways of handling that. The most common is to put the material together and publish a scholarly book about it. But when I'm writing, I try to get a sense of an experiential relationship to the material. In fact, I can't write unless that happens ... I don't write unless the stuff is really working on me, and my selection of material depends on what works.

  Joseph Campbell

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments - of light, of weather.

  Graham Swift

  Beautiful, Light, Cities

  "Voice from the street" by Sophie Harrison, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• It's odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community.

  SpaceGhostPurrp

  Hip Hop, Community, Black

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 18, 2012.

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• When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any greater, for it was already infinite. We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No--Jesus died because God is showing mercy. It was the mercy of God that gave us Calvary, not Calvary that gave us mercy. If God had not been merciful there would have been no incarnation, no babe in the manger, no man on a cross and no open tomb.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Men, Mercy Of God

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• There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

  Mark Haddon

  Nice, Home, Class

  "Mark Haddon: 'Don't go out and buy an Aston Martin, is the only rule'" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2013.

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• Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Character, Fame, Creation

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• Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

  Richard Russo

  Past, Focus, Should

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• Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Block, Lying, Book

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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• It never occurred to me that there was anything odd about writing my own music, and so I used to just jot down little ditties and things like that. And it was only in later years I suppose when I was about nine or so, that I realised there was this thing called composing.

  Richard Meale

  Writing, Years, Littles

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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