Perfect Things Quotes

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  There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Song: Anthem

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• I think there's so much feeling among young girls where they feel like they have to be this perfect thing - and they don't. Perfect people don't exist. Sometimes people need to be told it.

  Niall Horan

  Girl, Thinking, People

  "A Few Questions For One Direction". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. December 9, 2012.

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• I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.

  Norm MacDonald

  Perfect, Different, Kind

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

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• The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. It’s just kind of like the facts of life; the practice makes perfect thing. Keep your fingers crossed, start from the bottom and work your way up.

  Ed Sheeran

  Writing, Practice, Perfect

  "Redhead Redemption: Ed Sheeran". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 14, 2011.

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• I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Writing, Thinking, Perfect

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• There is an advantage in having a routine and working with the same people when you can and in writing as a regular thing and filming as a regular thing. That routine pays off for you. You get a lot of productivity that way, rather than sitting around waiting for inspiration and waiting for the perfect thing to happen. I would be much less productive that way.

  Woody Allen

  Inspiration, Writing, People

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• In a simple and a peaceful cottage with a beautiful view, you will not be dreaming about the palaces or the heaven, because you already have a perfect thing!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Dream, Simple

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• The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

  William C. Bryant

  Beautiful, Art, Perfect

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• I went to see Shine a Light, and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. Its primarily Mick Jagger, but theyre all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. Its just deeply, deeply attractive.

  Ben Daniels

  Men, Light, Perfect

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• The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Sight, Perfect, Suffering

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”

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• Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

  Ruth Rendell

  Real, Names, Perfect

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• The discipline of live theater - doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week - never ceases to amaze me

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Night, Eight, Discipline

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• You're trying to play someone [Edward Cullen] who's seen by a lot of people as being this perfect thing, but what is that? That doesn't really mean anything. You're trying to play an archetype on one hand and then a character on the other, so I felt insanely frustrated right up until the last shot, and then it ended.

  Robert Pattinson

  Character, Mean, Hands

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• When it was offered [a role in The Flash] I just thought it sounded like the perfect thing that I would want to do. Then they announced it online the day after and I was terrified, because I hadn't read anything, I hadn't shot anything. What if I'm awful? What if they fire me on the first day? But what I discovered was a bunch of really happy actors who want to make the best show possible, because it's fun. Not for any other reason.

  Tom Felton

  Fun, Fire, Perfect

  "The Flash: 9 questions with Tom Felton". Interview with Ed Gross, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.

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• Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.

  Robert Benton

  Ideas, Perfect, Important

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Mother, Father

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• There’s a need to perfect things in a writers’ room, and that can take a lot of fun out of a show sometimes. It’s a struggle. It depends on your personality. Some people love working with a writing staff. I had a great writing staff on Lucky Louie, but it sometimes felt like Congress or something.

  Louis C. K.

  Fun, Struggle, Writing

  "Writing Comedy – Interview with Louis C.K". Interview with Dan Calvisi, actfourscreenplays.com. July 16, 2010.

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• I would not be as married to locations and ideas, when I show up in the city that I'm actually going to shoot it in. You really have to roll with it. That perfect thing you have in your head just isn't going to be there sometimes, and you have to figure out what you're going to do, if you can't find it.

  Kevin Munroe

  Cities, Ideas, Perfect

  Source: collider.com

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• It depends on your specific conception of God, because belief can equally well leave you with this constant sense that you're coming up short and you're being judged and you're not doing quite the perfect thing. You know, I was brought up very religiously, and I never totally lost that sense, you know, that I'm screwing up.

  Joel Achenbach

  Perfect, Belief, Lost

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• [Sasha] for me it was a dream. I got to tell everybody where to go and how fast to get there. It was very exciting. It was still an Aaron Spelling show, with the hair and make-up and everything, but there were also motorcycles. For my life, at that time, it was such a perfect thing. I had all this inner anger to get out, and it was so exciting to get paid to do it. She had anger and sexuality and rebellion, but there was still that very sweet core. I didn't have to be something entirely unrecognizable or un-relatable. I just loved her to death.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Dream, Sweet, Hair

  Source: collider.com

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• There are names like Savoy Hotel, Caruso, Shangri-La, Pavlove, Mount Everest and the Treorchy Male Choir that just hang up there as peaks of excellence - perfect things that we simply take for granted as symbols of greatness. So imagine how delighted and honoured I am to join with all the other small peaks in congratulating the Choir of Choirs on its anniversary. In admiration, since I was a boy!

  Ron Moody

  Greatness, Boys, Names

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• When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

  Adam Rapp

  Perfection, Long, Inspire

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• To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and turns of underground cable. An all-too-perfect thing. Sometimes the lines get crossed. Or you get a wrong number. But that's nobody's fault. It'll always be like that, so long as we exist in this physical form. As a matter of principle.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Wrong Number, Ideas

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• Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

  Alice Munro

  Perfect, Poet

  Alice Munro (2012). “Dear Life”, p.253, Random House

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• It's a funny thing about stories. It doesn't feel like you make them up, more like you find them. You type and type and you know you haven't got it yet, because somewhere out there, there's that perfect thing -- the unexpected ending that was always going to happen. That place you've always been heading for, but never expected to go.

  Steven Moffat

  Funny Things, Perfect, Stories

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