Odd Quotes - Page 37

• Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the exotic and the unfamiliar. His photographs, seen by millions, make momentary events and strange occurrences all over the world our common property.

  Beaumont Newhall

  World, Events, Peculiar

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• Journalistic hours are odd and long and often tense, and newsmen seek each other out as natural allies in a world that is so much part of them, but which they visit so randomly.

  Osborn Elliott

  Long, World, Allies

  Osborn Elliott (1980). “The world of Oz”, Viking Pr

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• There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should be glad of that. It keeps us human.

  Lesley Hazleton

  Perfect, Sound, May

  Lesley Hazleton (1985). “The Right to Feel Bad”, Ballantine Books

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• I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.

  Deborah Turbeville

  Eerie, Atmosphere, Location

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• When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.

  Richard Russo

  Thinking, Looks, Theme

  "Richard Russo on Painting a Canvas With His Novels". HBO Interview, www.hbo.com.

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• Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.

  Matt Damon

  Next Day, Yesterday, One Day

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• On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of some obscure storyteller, and once you have read it, you will never go completely back to where you were before. The kind of book you may hesitate to lend for fear you might miss its company. The kind of book that echoes from the heart of some ancient knowing, and whispers from time's forgotten cave that life may be more than it seems, and less.

  A. Curtiss

  Book, Heart, Knowing

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• I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  People, Way, Study

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• Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.

  Bode Miller

  Legs, Skis, Racers

  "Bode Miller on Life Off the Slopes and His New Deal With Aztech Mountain". Interview with WWD, wwd.com. September 10, 2016.

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• I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

  Ann Patchett

  Fiction, Saws, Best Work

  "Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2013.

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• I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Causes, Planets

  "Interview: John Cleese and Eric Idle, founding members of Monty Python". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. February 18, 2016.

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• To be influenced by a magazine and, say, a Swedish theme, unless it resonates with you, it seems kind of odd and influenced.

  Michael S. Smith

  Magazines, Kind, Swedish

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I got into film in an odd way - when I was 17 years old I participated in a Swedish film as an actor. I think every person at that age should get a role in a film, because during that time you want acceptance, and when you have a role in a film you become an important person. I think about that now, and that was my fantastic starting point.

  Hannes Holm

  Acceptance, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that."

  Norm MacDonald

  Sound, Hollywood, Odd Things

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I kind of started with this foundation, and tried to do all the research I could do for Alice [Cullen], and then every time a [new] director would come in, they have their own artistic take on things and add in new elements. And a lot of times they would ask, "What did you love that you portrayed, and what do you wish that you could show?" So I felt, with each installment, I got the opportunity to add on something. I think she was very - you know, really sweet, [laughs] a little odd in the first installment.

  Ashley Greene

  Sweet, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: my.xfinity.com

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• I also wanted to be like my brothers, physically, and yet not physically. So I would constantly - and I think nowadays it's taken for granted that this is what girlfriends do - I would constantly wear their shorts, put on their shirts. That did not seem odd because we were desperately poor for quite a while. It wasn't as if pretty little girlie things were available to me.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Girlfriend, Brother, Taken

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• We're all a piece of the puzzle. It's a weird puzzle and it looks odd, but we all fit in it.

  Da'Vine Joy Randolph

  Looks, Pieces, Fit

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• [My mother] worked at thrift stores and she didn't have a high school education. She sacrificed everything she had for me and my brothers. I never went without. She showed me that she could put food on the table, buy us Jordans, we had the best clothes and she worked two-three odd jobs.

  Cory Hardrict

  Mother, Brother, Jobs

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• It just seems like atheists are not included in the basket of diversity in America, which is odd because we are the biggest minority. That is a bigger minority than any other minority you can name.

  Bill Maher

  Atheist, Names, America

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Brexit for me was really interesting because I was in the heart of Yorkshire, which is a "leave" area. It was quite odd actually, a real deep sense of unease. You felt very odd for your country. You have lots of people that are angry. It's a very physical and public stand that these people are making.

  Ruth Wilson

  Country, Real, Heart

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

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• It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.

  Jim Goad

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• [James Comey] should have gone to the Public Integrity section and said 'What do you folks think.' It's a little bit of an odd situation because he's a former deputy attorney general as well as head of the FBI so he may have trouble keeping on only the investigator hat forgetting that he's a former deputy attorney general. So it's not a good thing, it's a distraction so I think we should just ignore it because there's nothing there so get on with the business of last week of the election.

  William Weld

  Integrity, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It's odd about tattoos. I've talked to several hundred men convicted of homicide-multiple homicide, in most cases. The only common denominate- I could find among them was tattoos. A good eighty percent of them were heavily tattooed.

  Truman Capote

  Tattoo, Men, Common

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• It's strange, 'cause a play, you start at the beginning and you go all the way through to the end. So it's naturally very well rehearsed and you get a rhythm and a flow. In film, you can shoot the ending before the beginning. It's very odd. And it's like a craft you have to learn.

  Judd Nelson

  Play, Crafts, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Dark Backward. Bill Paxton is in it with me. Wayne Newton. James Caan. Adam Rifkin wrote and directed it. It was made a number of years ago and very odd. Not for the squeamish.

  Judd Nelson

  Dark, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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