Periods Quotes - Page 17

• I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Fun, Stuff, Whimsical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Fashion, Thinking, Animal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.

  Donnie Yen

  Example, Body, Gestures

  "Action Star Donnie Yen Talks DRAGON, Why He Turned Down THE EXPENDABLES 2, Period Versus Modern, Whether Breaking Out in the U.S. is a Goal, and More". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. November 29, 2012.

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• All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

  Bill Nighy

  Jobs, Gambling, Sick

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• The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

  Cyndi Lauper

  People, Creative, Brave

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• I worked on dramas before, I love sinking my teeth into something dramatic or a period piece, but there's something so fun about doing a comedy. When you go to set and your only job is to make people laugh, there's an unbelievable energy on set.

  Skylar Astin

  Jobs, Fun, Drama

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

  Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

  Art, Generations, Problem

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• I decided it would be better to be a bird. Birds are very busy at one period each year caring for babies, but this lasts only a few weeks with many of them, and then their babies are grown and gone. Best of all, they leave their houses forever and take to camping for the rest of the year. No wonder they are happy.

  Margaret Morse Nice

  Baby, Caring, Years

  Margaret Morse Nice (1979). “Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover”, p.41, Dundurn

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• Youth, then, once ballyhooed as the epicenter of fun, hot dogs, hot sex, and marvelous dope-smoking good times, is now defined as follows: that period before death, characterized by smooth skin and ill-formed ideas.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Dog, Sex, Fun

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Thinking, Order, Nwo

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• Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

  Randy Houser

  Depressing, Nice, Writing

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• You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

  David Copperfield

  Feel Better, Magic, Kind

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• Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.

  Melissa Marr

  Agents, Four, Down And

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• When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Mps, Land, Two

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• The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.

  Vasily Grossman

  War, Diversity, Captivity

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• Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors.

  Thomas Sowell

  Teacher, Responsibility, Years

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• The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Dark, Night, Long

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• Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.

  Peter Senge

  Innovation, Financial, Intense

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• At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.

  Edan Lepucki

  Writing, Thinking, Long

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• From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Order, Breathing

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• Well, the best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it's hard, man. They brainwash you to think you're doing the right thing.

  Pauly Shore

  Men, Thinking, Tv Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.

  Mary Ruefle

  Time, Might, Distraction

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.137, Wave Books

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• I wasn't taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 - there was a good feeling in the air. It was a very creative period for everyone.

  Mick Jagger

  Air, Creative, Drug

  "Mick Jagger Remembers". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. December 14, 1995.

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• When you're going over periods of your life, you remember certain things, certain events, certain people that you've forgotten. You've forgotten certain lessons or people you were very close to, and then you haven't seen them in a while. I think if you can go through life with the correct regrets, then looking back on it, like I did, a certain portion of my life is pretty enjoyable. All my regrets are ones that I'd like to keep.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Regret, Thinking, People

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Fundamentals, Literature, Significant

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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