Situation Quotes - Page 37

• I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

  Michelle Williams

  Thinking, Projects, Turns

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

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• I found the best ideas usually came, not when one was actively striving for them, but when one was in a more relaxed state… I used to take long solitary walks on Sundays, during which I tended to review the current situation in a leisurely way. Such occasions often proved fruitful, even though (or perhaps, because) the primary purpose of the walk was relaxation and not research.

  Paul Dirac

  Sunday, Ideas, Long

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• You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

  Allen Klein

  Attitude, May, Able

  "The Home Office Solution: How to Balance Your Professional and Personal Lives While Working at Home". Book by Alice Bredin, p. 33, 1998.

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• You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.

  Joe Walsh

  Live Your Life, Events, Looks

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• Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.

  Tim O'Brien

  Essentials, Storytelling, Harder

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• I've gone through various periods with superheroes. They work in the right hands, but they don't work in other hands. It's tricky. But any movie is tricky. It's impossible to say, 'This is what you do in any situation.

  John Carpenter

  Hands, Superhero, Gone

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• When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Sick, Want, Helping

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• Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.

  Elizabeth George

  Character, Events, Plot

  Elizabeth George (2011). “Write Away: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

  George P. Baker

  Moving, Character, Today

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• We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

  Charlton Ogburn

  Teamwork, Later In Life, Creating

  "Merrill's Marauders: The truth about an incredible adventure" by Charlton Ogburn, harpers.org. January 1957.

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• If it's a situation in which the public is being given access, you can't discriminate against the media and say, as a general matter, that the media don't have access, because their access rights, of course, correspond with those of the public.

  John Roberts

  Rights, Media, Matter

  "Roberts sidesteps questions on pledge, eminent domain" by Bill Mears, edition.cnn.com. September 15, 2005.

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• I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only faith can redeem them, though often the actual manner of the redemption is not immediately clear. They sin, but there is no limit to God's mercy and because this is important, there is a difference between not confessing in fact, and the complacent and the pious may not realize it.

  Graham Greene

  Character, Writing, Differences

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

  Paul Goodman

  Men, Imagination, Groups

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.89, New York Review of Books

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• They have no right to complain! If women were cool with knowing their man is cheating on them then they have no right to complain. Sit down somewhere. BUT, if it makes them unhappy then complain with the understanding that if he doesn't stop, get out the situation. End of story!

  Eric Williams

  Cheating, Men, Knowing

  Source: blacksportsonline.com

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• I find it difficult to breathe when l'm in the space. There seems to be no oxygen. I want to put people into a situation where they're sensitive to themselves watching the piece.

  Steve McQueen

  Oxygen, Space, People

  Source: www.artmonthly.co.uk

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• When you're heading into Anzac cove you are going into this battle situation staring into the sun. So, any movement in that water, any glint is going to be seen for miles away. Even in the first rays of dawn, there's nowhere to hide.

  Russell Crowe

  Water, Battle, Dawn

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't think I've got enough energy to be competitive! Most of my energy is just devoted to me being nervous and trying to deal with the situation.

  Max Irons

  Thinking, Trying, Energy

  "Red Riding Hood - Max Irons interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think the writers give us different people to work with, different situation scenarios to be in and there's always that fun balance of, you know, trying to keep it light and, you know, light-hearted and put in the comedy while trying to make it into drama.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Fun, Drama, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• An actor wants to get up every day and they can't think of anything particularly more fun to do than getting into a made-up situation and living it out as if it's real.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Fun, Real, Thinking

  "HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Jeff Goldblum Talks Law & Order: Criminal Intent’s New Detective and More!". Interview, eclipsemagazine.com. April 29, 2009.

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• I think ultimately, when you believe somebody is going through a situation and it's either awkward or ridiculous, but you believe it, that can be funny.

  Steve Carell

  Believe, Thinking, Awkward

  "Steve Carell Talks About Dan in Real Life". Scholastic Interview, www.movieweb.com. October 22, 2007.

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• All films created by Walt Disney at the time of his major outpouring of work were carefully crafted to fit scenes, characters, moods and situations. If these elements changed in any way, songs - no matter how good they were - were discarded. Others were written for the new scenes. Many times, character songs were dropped because characters were dropped...sequences were dropped etc.

  Richard Sherman

  Song, Character, Elements

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Dieter Dengler was an amazing man. Who knows what he would've been had he not ever been tested in this way? It's a question that I certainly have myself. What would I be able to do in certain situations? He came out, obviously, looking like a true hero, but he didn't go in looking like that. He was not your typical image of somebody that you would think would be the tough guy who was able to endure. His lighthearted attitude, this sort of dorkiness, and naivete; it ended up being the finest tool for his survival.

  Christian Bale

  Attitude, Hero, Men

  "Christian Bale Pushes the Limits in Rescue Dawn". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. July 8, 2007.

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• You kind of go through situations that don't work out, and then all of a sudden you have this baby in your hands and you forget about all of that. You forget about the last three years of your life. You just realize that everything unfolded exactly the way it was supposed to unfold.

  Kristen Stewart

  Baby, Hands, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's funny because sometimes one doesn't actually consider these things for one's self until one's in a situation like this press conferece where one has to kind of think about it.

  Gillian Anderson

  Thinking, Self, Kind

  "Straightheads - Gillian Anderson interview". Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.

  Jay Baruchel

  Needs, Actors, Tailors

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 10, 2010.

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