Puzzles Quotes - Page 14

• Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.

  Sanford Meisner

  Broken, Acting, Plates

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• Sometimes something becomes a lot better. It's like a puzzle . You can't force a round brick into a square. It's a delicate thing. You need to let the song decide.

  Oh Land

  Song, Delicate Things, Squares

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• People may be said to resemble the pieces of a puzzle, each unique, yet each essential to bring out a complete picture.

  Felix Adler

  Unique, People, Essentials

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• I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.

  Claude Lelouch

  Beginning Middle And End, Sometimes, Film

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I became an actor because I love solving problems. I'm a big crossword puzzle person. I love doing research. One of the reasons I became Jewish is because I love text study.

  Anthony Heald

  Actors, Research, Study

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A cat is like a puzzle with no solution.

  Anne Campbell

  Cat, Solutions

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• All joking aside, I'm a television watcher and I get frustrated with shows sometimes when they set up puzzles and then they don't give answers. It's just more questions and more questions.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Giving, Frustrated, Answers

  "Sarah Michelle Gellar Interview RINGER; Compares Her Return to TV to BUFFY Experience". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.

  Maurice Sendak

  Needs, Sake, Incredibles

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• Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.

  Winston Churchill

  Keys, Unions, Riddle

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• When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Views, Together, Pieces

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• Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but always responsible, no tricks for tricks' sake; so satisfying, with its shifting and puzzles. So much fiction turns out to be diversion, in spite of fancy claims, and doesn't really look at anything. Well - this does.

  Alice Munro

  Luck, Doe, Looks

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• Will customers keep supporting the enormous overhead required to sustain ineffectual, unproductive stock picking across an array of thousands of individual funds devoted to every investing 'style' and economic sector or regional subgroup that some marketing idiot can dream up? Not likely. A brutal shakeout is coming and one of its revelations will be that stock picking is a grossly overrated piece of the puzzle, that cost control is what distinguishes a competitive firm from an uncompetitive one.

  Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

  Dream, Style, Marketing

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• I learned that everyone makes mistakes and has weaknesses and that one of the most important things that differentiates people is their approach to handling them. I learned that there is an incredible beauty to mistakes, because embedded in each mistake is a puzzle, and a gem that I could get if I solved it, i.e. a principle that I could use to reduce my mistakes in the future.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Mistake, People

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• As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.

  Viola Davis

  Artist, Together, Mixtures

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• Have you seen the new Polish jigsaw puzzle? One piece.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Jigsaw Puzzles

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• The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are just a piece of their puzzle.

  Dane Cook

  Directors, Actors, Pieces

  "INTERVIEW: Dane Cook Knows Earl's Dirty Little Secret in Mr. Brooks!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 24, 2007.

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• Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Mother, Fun, Memories

  "It Started With A Guy In Overalls". Interview with Satoru Iwata, www.nintendo.co.uk.

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• Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.

  Joss Whedon

  Littles, Bigger, Solve

  "No. 1 Fan Joss Whedon on 'Veronica Mars'". ew.com. October 11, 2005.

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• I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Book, Thinking, Friendly

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• We're in this strange age where we can't say 'I love you,' at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify it, the whole point of trying to capture it would sort of make it dead. The fragmented thing can create a situation where the holes between the pieces of the puzzle can be filled with meaning, and thereby you get a greater sense of complexity or feeling.

  Christoffer Boe

  Love You, Feelings, Age

  "Fade to Black: Christoffer Boe". Interview with Darroch Greer, Millimeter, September 01, 2004.

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• Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

  B. W. Powe

  Practice, Work Out, Canada

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

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• Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Book, Reading, Waiting

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• When you're in these movie deals and the studios are talking, they're putting business deals and packages together, but they're making calls based on previous relationships. They go, "Oh, let's call this actor because we did this with him, and he might like him. Does he like him? Let's piece them together." There's a brain behind that puzzle, and I want to be the brain.

  Kevin Hart

  Business Deals, Talking, Brain

  "Kevin Hart Talks ABOUT LAST NIGHT, Edging out Other Romantic Comedies, Pushing the Envelope, Balancing Comedy and Drama, and Improvising on Set". Interview on the Set, collider.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.

  Steve Tisch

  Hollywood, Pieces, Mouths

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• He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

  Horace

  Hard Work, Brain, Nails

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