Strange Things Quotes - Page 7

• Acting is a really strange thing. You have to know when you're put in a bad situation, but you also have to be willing to do something very strange.

  Alexandra Daddario

  Acting, Strange, Situation

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• Choosing work is an interesting thing. It's a balance between what's available and what you've always got in the back of your mind - that awful, strange thing that seems to have to exist in this industry, of what will give you "exposure."

  Guy Pearce

  Giving, Interesting, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.

  Paul Dano

  Jobs, Thinking, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don't have enough dopamine to feel good. So then you feel bad and go back to the addictive behavior to get more dopamine. The strange thing is that it works with what we think of as uppers and downers and whatever you call gambling - sidewaysers.

  Bill Nye

  Thinking, Gambling, Feel Good

  "Bill Nye: Cell phones aren't making us dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, www.nbcnews.com. March 23, 2010.

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• The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant way to the West.... And because they were lonely and perplexed, because they had all come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because they were all going to a mysterious new place, ... a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Dream, Lonely

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• The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing that was a book in a vernacular language, and you could imagine there were other readers of this book who you couldn't see, but they were a theoretical union of readers who all use the same language. That is kind of a prerequisite for a national fantasy. You need that thing, and it's a strange thing.

  Ben Katchor

  Book, Europe, Funny Things

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
  Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,
  Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.
  It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Mad, Shade

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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• The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.

  Countee Cullen

  Home, Heart, Keys

  Countee Cullen, “The Shroud Of Color”

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• People do need a social license to go, "Ha ha ha," and have a good time. It's a strange thing. There's a lot of social ritual around comedy and laughter. It's a bonding experience for groups, but nobody can tell you much about how funny somebody is. Sometimes people just need to be in a group and be laughing together, just like they need to be in a group in watching some really terrifying film.

  Dylan Moran

  Laughter, People, Laughing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was a strange thing, this feeling of empathy. He'd never experienced it before. He realized that what hurt this woman hurt him as well, that what made her bleed caused a hemorrhage of pain within his soul.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Hurt, Pain, Empathy

  Elizabeth Hoyt (2010). “Wicked Intentions: Number 1 in series”, p.186, Hachette UK

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• There are bits at the table read that destroy, so much so that we can't wait to do it in taping. And then, no reaction. And then there are times when I can't get the right read on a line in rehearsal, and then the audience howls at it. The strange thing is I still don't know why it happens like that. It's not like afterwards I think, 'Now I know why that worked!'

  Simon Helberg

  Thinking, Waiting, Lines

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.

  Mary Roach

  People, Kingdoms, Strange

  "Spook and Stiff author Mary Roach". Interview with Donna Bowman, www.avclub.com. August 27, 2010.

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• I questioned everything about music. I think it's a strange thing standing on a stage and making music. I just questioned it always: What's music? What's the meaning of it?

  Gustav Ejstes

  Thinking, Strange, Stage

  "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

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• I saw a lot of drugs and strange things when I was younger, but I also think it was a positive experience because I was surrounded by these really interesting, beautiful people that were trying to get their lives back on track.

  Tamaryn

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of its possibilities. Kundera goes on and on about this, and I never tire of reading him on the subject, because I agree very deeply with it.

  Teju Cole

  Reading, Writing, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Oftentimes, a funny situation is funny because it's uncomfortable or weird. The most memorable stories, or the stuff that you repeat to your friends, it's not like, "Oh, I had a pleasant day, nothing happened on the bus today." It's when strange things happen, when you become uncomfortable or knocked out of your own reality, those are the things that are interesting.

  John C. Reilly

  Memorable, Reality, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People always ask if I was really voted Most Bizarre Girl in high school. But that one's actually true. I was living in Michigan in a very conservative town and had a nose-ring and a shaved head and did kind of strange things.

  Gillian Anderson

  Girl, School, People

  "X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Interview with Nick De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. August, 2008.

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• I don't know what to say to her. All I know is, I ain't saying it. And I know she ain't saying what she want a say either and it's a strange thing happening here cause nobody saying nothing and we still managing to have us a conversation

  Kathryn Stockett

  Want, Saying Nothing, Causes

  "The Help". Book by Kathryn Stockett, July 23, 2009.

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• The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Years, Adequate, Strange

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.70, Wordsworth Editions

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• I think that may be the biggest difference between Americans and people elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians know that there are places just as real as Canada. It's a self-centeredness that's a very strange thing.

  Jane Jacobs

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.metropolismag.com

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• I don't want to pick on Deutsche Bank, but I think the world of the regulated financial conglomerate, it is a strange thing. There is nothing in common between writing checks and running branch offices, issuing credit cards - those are good businesses, but they really have zero in common with M&A advice. They're a different customer.

  Ken Moelis

  Running, Zero, Writing

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• Originality is always a strange thing. There's nothing original anymore. It's all something based on something in some way - even if it's not intentional. So that idea has been done.

  Nick Damici

  Ideas, Done, Way

  Source: dailydead.com

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• This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used to the strange perspectives open at each moment of our lives" - something like that.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Perspective, Elements, Strange

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party

  Stephen Chbosky

  New Year, Party, Years

  Stephen Chbosky (2010). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

  Danielle Steel

  People, Strange, Hopeless

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