One Thing Quotes - Page 19

• The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Bedrock

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Comedy is very important, yes. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

  Tom Lehrer

  Mean, Laughing, People

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• The one thing I've come to figure out is this equation where the more uncomfortable I am, the better I'm going to look. I'm like, "This one really hurts. I must look awesome!" The corsets are uncomfortable, but they are so flattering. No, my waist will never be that small.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Hurt, Looks, Figures

  Source: collider.com

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• Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Country, Dark, Russia

  "Gary Shteyngart's Rules for Vodka Drinking" by Ben Detrick, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.

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• People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together.

  David Byrne

  People, House, Ambitious

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. September 22, 2008.

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• When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus. One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working. Because when there's all this stuff going on, for me to be able to put on headphones and listen to music helps me keep my focus,. A big part of creating a character for me is finding the general palette for what kind of music I'm going to be listening to.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Jobs, Character, Creating

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• When I was little, that was one thing that I was told in a vision: I was going to have my own show when I grew up. And it's going to be funny.

  Roseanne Barr

  Vision, Littles, Grew Up

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can be very moving and dramatic, and yet hilarious.

  Sarah Silverman

  Moving, Mixing, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• Look at all those American preachers who got caught with their pants down. They say one thing and they are doing another. I try to be more honest about it, both in my thinking and my behavior.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Trying, Looks

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• When I'm killed, don't think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good. And there's one thing that I know well, I'm damned if I'll be damned to Hell!

  Robert Graves

  Thinking, Zion, Woods

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

  Anton Chekhov

  Real, Daydreaming, Exquisite

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• An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

  Bridget Riley

  Failure, Artist, Doe

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• One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of time with him or her. It has always amazed me the closeness of that relationship even though a word was never spoken, intellect not any part of it.

  Ken Gillespie

  Dog, Intellect, Painter

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• Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

  Ned Beauman

  Old Things, Chance, Increase

  "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.

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• For the multifold secret to work only one thing is necessary. You must take action. You must give. You must share. You must act with abandon. Send out waves of love and kindness into the world and then simply wait for the response. Or, better yet, continue to send out more waves. Why wait? The response will come. Keep sending waves and enjoy the reaction.

  John Kremer

  Kindness, Giving, Waiting

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• To touch on people's lives [ in a way they ] haven't been touched on before, it´s fascianting. You know, it's one thing if [ a celebrity ] has an incredible character and you're really going to be able to delve into their personality – that's great. But you can never get real purity if people have been spoiled by the camera and don't trust you. I like feeling that I'm able to be a voice for those people who aren't famous, the people that don't have the great opportunities.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Real, Character, Opportunity

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• That was the one thing about the rain that likened it to sorrow: You did your best to remain untouched, safe and dry, but if and when you failed, there came a point in which you started seeing the problem less in terms of drops than as an incessant gush, and thereby you decide you might as well get drenched.

  Elif Safak

  Rain, Ifs And, Sorrow

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• There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

  Brian Schmidt

  Tests, Able, Problem

  "Life, the universe and everything". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. June 18, 2012.

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• There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk about because I don't think conceptually while I work on a first draft -- I just write. To get scientific about it is a little like trying to catch moonbeams in a jar. But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jul 23, 2013

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• If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.

  Willow Smith

  Hard, Ifs

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

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• SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Commitment, Successful, Thinking

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Nov 17, 2014

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• My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Stories, World

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.

  Coventry Patmore

  Darkness, Blind

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.

  Lucretius

  Fall, Age, Weakness

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.159, Psychology Press

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• If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.

  Karl Kraus

  Police, Stealing, Psychologist

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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