Odd Quotes - Page 35

• I hate Christmas. I do think it is odd that I have wound up playing these two iconic Christmas haters. It is the same story, in a way. Scrooge is the original Grinch. I think I am perfectly suited, because I have had some dark Christmases.

  Jim Carrey

  Hate, Dark, Thinking

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. So it's hard for me to come up with things, because I don't write stuff, I don't write my act down.

  Lewis Black

  Writing, Stuff, Comic

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2011.

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• For some odd reason, I had an early and extreme multidisciplinary cast of mind. I couldn't stand reaching for a small idea in my own discipline when there was a big idea right over the fence in somebody else's discipline. So I just grabbed in all directions for the big ideas that would really work.

  Charlie Munger

  Ideas, Discipline, Mind

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• I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly true ghost stories - so much so that it became necessary for me to read a chapter of _Little Women_ every night before I turned out the light - and at the same time I was collecting pictures of houses, particularly odd houses, to see what I could find to make into a suitable haunted house.

  Shirley Jackson

  Book, Reading, Night

  Shirley Jackson (2013). “Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel”, p.107, Penguin

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• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  Nancy Meyers

  Struggle, Philadelphia, Trying

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

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• I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

  Dan Ariely

  Mistake, Found, Appeals

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• The odd thing about Cripple of Inishmaan is its never actually been performed on the island.

  Garry Hynes

  Islands, Odd Things, Cripples

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• I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.

  Hamish Bowles

  Historical, Saint, Pieces

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• My mind is like a gyre and odd juxtapositions happen.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Mind, Juxtaposition, Happens

  "Ruth Ozeki: 'This book is about the character creating a novelist'". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2013.

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• He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thick of our sins. He saves us in our disasters, not from them. He emphatically does not promise to meet only the odd winner of the self-improvement lottery. He meets us all in our endless and inescapable losing.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Loss, Self, Promise

  Robert Farrar Capon (1996). “The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-found of Church History”, p.15, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• John Kerry told Tom Ridge he was too busy to receive a Homeland Security briefing. I thought that was odd, since you're not supposed to ignore terrorist threats until after you become president.

  David Letterman

  President, Busy, Briefing

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• It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the readers opportunities to follow it at every step.

  Harry Mathews

  Opportunity, Interesting, May

  "Agent Provocateur: Harry Matthews with Johannah Rogers". The Brooklyn Rail Interview, brooklynrail.org. June 1, 2005.

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• The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.

  Anthony Browne

  Drawing, Battle, Littles

  "A life in books: Anthony Browne". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.

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• I find it odd that theres such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.

  Joan Blades

  Strong, Way, Election

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• It felt odd to be laughing during a firefight. Then again, if you can't laugh when you're about to die, when can you?

  Mira Grant

  Laughing, Felt, Dies

  Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.251, Hachette UK

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• ... Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient-damned odd standing in the open street half-an-hour, with your eye against a lamp.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Eye

  Charles Dickens (2015). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 1 (of 2) (Illustrations)”, p.10, E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

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• Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

  Jane Smiley

  Avid, Names, Poetry

  Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.97, Anchor

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• The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Laughter, Order, People

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• I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

  Nancy Friday

  Men, Ducks, Feminist

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• What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds them because, after careful thought, he finds a balance in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his conclusions may seem.

  Bertrand Russell

  Balance, Atheism, Unhappy

  Bertrand Russell (1944). “The Value of Free Thought: How to Become a Truth-seeker and Break the Chains of Mental Slavery”

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• I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.

  Ricky Gervais

  Odd Things, Done, Television

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• I have this odd tendency to be really sarcastic when I'm uncomfortable and I don't really know why but it just comes out and it's come out since I was a child.

  Mila Kunis

  Sarcastic, Children, Tendencies

  Source: movies.about.com

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• In my first stand-up acts there wasn't material even. You know, I'd go on stage and cry and read a Dear John letter or gut fish on stage. I could be odd - and it's what interested me as a comedian.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Comedian, Goes On, Letters

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.

  Stephen Fry

  Philosophy, Live Your Life, Odd Things

  "Big Think Interview With Stephen Fry". bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters behave in inexplicable ways. It takes a little bit of time to get into the rhythm of the book. I found reading the first 15 chapters of Genesis very very difficult. Once I got past there, I loved reading, and found it very easy. When you get used to the Bible, it becomes thrilling to read (like any great book - I just had exactly the same experience with the Odyssey).

  David Plotz

  Book, Reading, Character

  "Biblically Speaking". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.

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