Shapes Quotes - Page 8

• I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.

  Marc Almond

  Ideas, Clothes, Shifting

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If you listen to the real in you, that part that's pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out, it will shape your life in a way where, when you get to be sixty, you'll succeed. You'll be happy about your life.

  Eve Ensler

  Real, Trying, Way

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• Being hapa, or more specifically, half-Japanese half-Euro mutt (English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, French, Welsh, German. . .in case you were wondering), has definitely helped shape who I am. It's very cool to get to identify and learn about all these unique cultures and I think it's helped put the world in perspective.

  Kina Grannis

  Unique, Thinking, Who I Am

  "Rising Star: Kina Grannis". Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2010.

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• I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.

  Biz Stone

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

  Rachel Holmes

  Writing, Decision, Consciousness

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Girls need to know that we are all unique and that we should all celebrate our unique beauty because it comes in all different shapes and sizes.

  Coco Rocha

  Girl, Unique, Different

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• For me, form is something I locate in the process of writing the poems. What I mean is, I start scribbling, and then try to form the poem - on a typewriter or on my computer - and, by trial and error, try to find the right shape. I just try to keep forming the poem in different ways until it feels right to me.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Writing, Mean, Errors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal that begins its life in the water, but ends it on land - already, that's pretty weird. But, also, a lot of them are incredibly tiny and look wildly improbable. They have funny little toes, they stretch their throats into weird bubble shapes when they croak, and some of them are poisonous to the touch. I think kids from the twenty-second century might mythologize amphibians the way kids today mythologize dinosaurs.

  Annalee Newitz

  Crazy, Kids, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Basically political economy - that you have to look at how funding structures shape the media landscape. You have to look at commercial interests, consolidation - the economy structures are experience.

  Astra Taylor

  Media, Political, Looks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

  John Dufresne

  Character, Childhood, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The White Horse video which was directed by Marco Ovando started off with a biker theme. Once Ava Sanjurjo came in as stylist along with Marco & I it really took it's own shape. It was all very improvised but wound up paying homage to NY and night life. People say it reminds them of a Guess ad which I love!

  Nomi Ruiz

  Horse, Night, White

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I can be a fairly hands-on editor, and when I'm editing someone I feel intensely invested in that writer and her work. I love helping to shape a book, and I feel very privileged to get to do that with writers I'm excited about. I think doing that work for the past six years has changed me, and it better prepared me for the questions and suggestions.

  Danielle Dutton

  Book, Past, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I got to draw shapes. I really like to draw funky, geometric shapes. And I got to use just different fonts and make a joke of how feminine it was, but it didn't even have people in it. To me, it was so exciting and interesting to do that for a while.

  David Rees

  Geometric Shapes, People, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've seen it personally that people have a natural sensibility to Arabic script. I don't know it if it's because of the shape, I don't know what it is in this script that makes it so universal. But even if you don't understand it, you still have this feeling; you can feel the piece of art in front of you.

  eL Seed

  Art, People, Feelings

  Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• Basically, I feel inspired by any artist that seems to want to introduce the world to their likes and perspective rather than trying to shape their interests and point of view to fit better into the world around them.

  Marie Calloway

  Artist, Views, Perspective

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.

  Erykah Badu

  Song, Fun, Creating

  Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• I think it's hard to understand in economics. It's easier to understand on psychology.It's a kind of panic or a sense that the world economy is just not in as good shape as we thought and so everybody is chasing everybody else.

  David Wessel

  Thinking, Psychology, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Women come in all shapes and sizes, and we are what we want to be, not the label that is placed on us.

  Erin Willett

  Labels, Want, Size

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• When you're a kid, you think, "Well, I will grow up and I will get a wife and we will have kids and then we will have grandkids." My life has a different shape. That is weird, but there are things about it that are exciting.

  Guy Branum

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If there are more than two sexes, then so be it and, of course, the assumption that there are two helps shape, as many have argued, the binary logic that underpins much of the history of western philosophy.

  Alison Assiter

  Sex, Philosophy, Two

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Now if you can recognize and memorize a grandmaster's game, and you have the respect to understand [Zimbabwean president Robert] Mugabe who has survived past anyone's expectations, and make the simple assumption it wasn't an accident, and you understand why he did what he did, now you're ready to predict ... The key to forecasting is to understand both the constraints nations are under and the manner in which the struggle for power shapes leaders.

  George Friedman

  Struggle, Simple, Past

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way of knowing this until you register it in visible form. But the other side of this is that you do have some idea of where you are going.

  Teju Cole

  Ideas, Knowing, Way

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The shape is the most important to me because it is what really matters and what's really missing in the market. Anything else is easier.

  Beth Ditto

  Missing, Important, Matter

  "Talking to Beth Ditto About Her New Fashion Collection: "Don't Wait For Things to Change for You, Change It Yourself"". Interview with Clementine Desseaux, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. February 16, 2016.

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• Perhaps adding a line or two of dialogue to try to better capture an emotion. But I've found that if the story isn't there in the beginning, right from the start, I generally can't beat it into shape no matter how much rewriting I do.

  Mary J. Miller

  Two, Trying, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like work that gets out in the world and lets the world shape the poem.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Fighting, World

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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