Quirky Quotes - Page 3

• All my friends make really small, naturalistic, dialogue-heavy movies, so I'm kind of used to that. I didn't want my movie to be rambly and I didn't want it to be cutesy, or quirky, or clever.

  Sophia Takal

  Clever, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never thought of myself as explaining cats in general. I simply viewed the cats I have known as characters in my life, often as quirky and complex as the humans with whom I have spent time.

  Marge Piercy

  Character, Cat, Explaining

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• I've never met a cartoonist who isn't quirky or weird in some ways.

  Jules Feiffer

  Way, Mets, Cartoonist

  "Backing Into Forward: A Memoir". Book by Jules Feiffer, www.motherjones.com. August 30, 2010.

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• I think the biggest wrestling match-up I have is how to respond to the word "quirky." Or the alternate, "nerdy." Both are essentially benign to the reader, but if you're a writer just sort of involved in your creative process, they seem like very small motivations.

  John Flansburgh

  Motivation, Wrestling, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.

  David Crystal

  Book, Fall, Skeletons

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• To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Writing, People

  An Interview with Jasper Fforde by Simone Swink, www.bookbrowse.com. 2005.

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• What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in: 'There's a right way, a wrong way, and my way.' You want to see how that looks on the page, pick up any of Craig McDonald's novels. He's built him a nice little shack out there way off all the reg'lar roads, and he's brewing some fine, heady stuff. Leave your money under the rock and come back in an hour.

  James Sallis

  Nice, Rocks, Mcdonalds

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• As a preacher I just feel like I have to be honest; I couldn't live with myself if I wasn't. I think that's why I've been able to reach some people who don't feel comfortable in churches. I do make mistakes and I can be goofy and quirky sometimes. I'm not the world's greatest speaker. I don't try to hide that.

  Jay Bakker

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  "One Punk Under God". Interview With Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2006.

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• I'm just trying to choose interesting, quirky projects or things with interesting directors or just movies that have a lot of people I like attached to them so I know I'm going to have a good time.

  Douglas Booth

  People, Interesting, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Party, Gay, Kissing

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Absurdistan”, p.41, Granta Books

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• It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.

  Lily Collins

  Beautiful, Waiting, Different

  "Lily Collins' Exclusive Interview". www.seventeen.com. February 1, 2012.

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• It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.

  Nathan Fillion

  Cute, Character, Careers

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• It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

  Paloma Faith

  Girl, People, Looks

  "Paloma Faith: Causing a stir". Interview with Eleanor Morgan, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2009.

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• Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.

  Kat Dennings

  Girl, Guy

  "Kat Dennings is Weird". Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. October 28, 2011.

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• I want people to be able to relate to the music, to enjoy the music, in a sense of it being fun and interesting and maybe kind of quirky. I want people to be impacted by the story.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Fun, People, Interesting

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• The good thing about Dennis [ Mathis] is, even though he's a white, he respected that I was doing something quirky with my English. He loved it when I would mix up the Americanisms and say, "That's water over the dam."

  Sandra Cisneros

  White, Water, Dams

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer 2008.

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• I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Writing, Procrastination, Trying

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Believe, Voice, Records

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• [My father] had this quirky thing of not believing in gravity. And giving me a constant headache about that one. He would say if I showed any interest in gravity, I was becoming a dupe of the system. He could see indications I was beginning to believe in it.

  Paul Laffoley

  Father, Believe, Giving

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I feel like a lot of people talk about in rom-coms, there's the female best friend. There's all those archetypes in rom-coms. But even among a movie about man-children hanging out, there is always the one who's often the fat one, often the one with the beard, who is like the man-childest of them all. He's the one that eventually meets the fat girl or the quirky girl of the girl group of friends and really hits it off.

  Jon Gabrus

  Girl, Children, Men

  "Nerdy meathead Jon Gabrus on straddling the bro/geek divide". Interview with Kyle Ryan, film.avclub.com. February 3, 2016.

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• I like playing dark, offbeat, quirky characters.

  Mischa Barton

  Character, Dark, Offbeat

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

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• I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Letting Go, Essence, Special

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.162, Penguin

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• Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.

  Felicia Day

  Hollywood, Secretary, Decided

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.

  Emma Watson

  Dolls, Collections, Places I've Been

  "Emma Watson". www.seventeen.com. December 12, 2007.

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• I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.

  Viola Davis

  Sexy, Different, Want

  Source: aalbc.com

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