Staring Quotes - Page 25

• There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin on your face when you get to the end. Girls like it sad, with a thousand-yard stare out to the distance as you gaze upon the horrors of war they can't quite see. Either way, it's the same story.

  Phil Klay

  Girl, War, Distance

  Phil Klay (2014). “Redeployment”, p.36, Penguin

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• Don't underestimate the power of the nonverbal. You'd be amazed how many people come in for interviews with poor posture, weak handshakes, and blank stares.

  Nicole Williams

  People, Interviews, Underestimate

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Dream, Sky, Stills

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We're all simultaneously separated and connected by our devices, staring into our little screens, and also hungry for experience and community.

  Dani Shapiro

  Community, Littles, Hungry

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

  Rebecca Miller

  Mother, People, Mouths

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not Israeli and because I'm not a citizen, it doesn't matter how often I go there - I'm still not Israeli. There's this way I feel so close to so many people there, but I always feel like I'm staring through the glass. And in a way, having this really thin piece of glass between me and this place is incredibly useful for me as a writer, because I'm just so hyper-aware of it. I could take a walk in San Francisco and probably notice a third of the things that I would notice in Israel, because I'm just attuned to everything when I'm there.

  Molly Antopol

  Glasses, Israel, San Francisco

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together. Each person is having a very personal and maybe even emotional experience, but it's in the confines of an extremely quiet and sterile room.

  Hiro Murai

  Emotional, Museums, Together

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Getting tired of sitting, staring at my computer screen, day after day, where everyone is two-dimensional, reduced to an avatar photo, status updates, or maybe some carefully curated vacation photos. There's something exhausting about that after a while. I found myself wanting to hear voices.

  Brad Listi

  Tired, Vacation, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of sketching on bits of paper, playing the piano, playing synthesisers, using the computer, staring out of the window, finding things I'd forgotten about, happy accidents, failed plans, best intentions, equipment failures. It is a multidimensional process incorporating a lot of planning and intention and a lot of randomness. Ultimately I just follow the material where it wants to go a lot of the time.

  Max Richter

  Piano, Normal, Happy Accidents

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I know that's how things have gotten, but I appreciate to listen to it the way it was intended to be listened to. The way the intro to the record starts. I just want you to stare at the cover, get absorbed in the whole vibe and let it take you on that journey.

  Charlie Benante

  Journey, Appreciate, Records

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• Flying while Muslim is nerve-racking in itself. Every time I prepare to fly, I have to make sure the anxiety I feel from all the stares I get from the moment I walk into the airport doesn't show on my face. This is what every woman in a hijab or bearded Muslim man experiences. But we are not alone: Sikh men who wear a turban experience the same anxiety because they encounter Islamophobia by dint of being perceived as Muslim.

  Debbie Almontaser

  Men, Airports, Anxiety

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.

  Feist

  Lenses, Want, Photograph

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2010.

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• Rafferty [Law] plays three or four instruments. He is very gifted. Whereas I pick instruments up and kind of stare at them and go, "I can't ever possibly play this." And I don't!

  Jude Law

  Law, Play, Three

  "#ManCrushMonday: Jude Law". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 14, 2016.

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• Many hunters and professional soldiers (especially snipers) have remarked how important it is during a stalk to not directly stare or even think hard about your quarry, else he will often sense it. While nobody can adequately explain it, this phenomenon has been noticed by so many people that its truth cannon be questioned

  Kenneth W. Royce

  Gun, Thinking, People

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• This is something I learned when I was working at a newspaper: when you put something on paper, whether it's words or pictures, and it's staring back at the reader, they are now alone in the room with them for as long as it takes them to turn the page. Whereas on television, the images fly by.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Long, Television, Paper

  "Jessica Jones’ creator on the biggest change from comics to her Netflix show". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 29, 2016.

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• I do wear makeup when I work out. I am one of those people. It sounds stupid, but I can't really get motivated if I don't have a mirror and I'm not staring at myself because I need to look at myself.

  Nina Agdal

  Stupid, Makeup, Mirrors

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

  Marc Guggenheim

  Pages, Matter, Blank

  "I'm Marc Guggenheim, Writer and Executive Producer of Arrow, and This Is How I Work". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. August 31, 2016.

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• I was forgetting that an artist also just stares at a piece of paper or canvas all day. It somehow never occurred to me to connect these two diverse creative modes.

  Vera Nazarian

  Artist, Two, Creative

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Motivational, Eye, Faces

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• Last night I didn't realize I said "abortion" in my stand up comedy act instead of "circumcision." No wonder I got blank stares at "rabbi got faint at sight of blood."

  Ben Rosenfield

  Funny, Night, Sight

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• Everyone we love builds a home in our heart. And when they are gone we spend eternity staring at their empty seat.

  Bindi Irwin

  Home, Heart, Gone

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• You really have to examine how long you are going to live in the house; budget and then you have to come up with a plan that fits within all of those things. Then you have to stop, sit down and stare at that plan for a couple of months, take your time and live with it in your mind. Once you've got your budget, plan it.

  Bryan Baeumler

  Couple, Long, House

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• When we shot "Stargate," he [ Jaye Davidson] came up to me at one point and said, "I don't like shooting movies," and I said, "Why?" "Too many people stare at me." I said, "Then you're totally in the wrong business."

  Roland Emmerich

  People, Shooting, Shots

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at it thinking, how am I going to do this if I don't play guitar or keyboards? How am I going to write and record a song if I don't know how to play any instruments? I mean, I played the violin, but I didn't know anything about how to work a 4-track.

  Petra Haden

  Song, Writing, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't mind it. I just space it out. Every other week I go out. I used to get some time to myself but I've been pretty busy lately. But I've had it the other way, where I'm staring at the phone waiting for it to ring, so this is definitely better.

  Bill Burr

  Phones, Space, Waiting

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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