Stuff Quotes - Page 32

• I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Morning, Creative, Desire

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• How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, "No, leave the miracle part to me. I've got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I'm God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.

  Jim Rohn

  Rain, Sunshine, Night

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• Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated

  Franz Kafka

  Sometimes, Laundry, Drawers

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• This is New York, a combat zone, and everyone has to have an angle or they're not allowed over the bridges or through the tunnels. Let them have their angles, it's what they live for. You've got better things to worry about, like making sure the people that actually matter don't try any funny stuff.

  Cynthia Heimel

  New York, Tunnels, Bridges

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• The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Rehearsal, Hearing, Assuming

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• To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.

  Eli Siegel

  Secret, World, Fine

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• Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.

  David Hockney

  Artist, Should, Interest

  "David Hockney Keeps Seeking New Avenues of Exploration". Interview with Mark Feeney, archive.boston.com. February 26, 2006.

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• Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Childhood, Language

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• I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.

  Damien Hirst

  Media, Term, Ask Me

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• Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.

  Sean William Scott

  Military, Agriculture, Waiting

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• It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads, he picks stuff up, he talks to people. And he's pretty serious about his own Christian beliefs.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Cities, People

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• The stuff that?s most important to me in life can?t be bought ? it can only be earned.

  Steve Pavlina

  Important

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• I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Confused, Real, Writing

  "A 'Marriage Plot' Full Of Intellectual Angst". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 11, 2011.

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• What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.

  Anish Kapoor

  Doe, Looks, World

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• John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or censure. He opens up the creative goo and all of the actor vessel stuff. He knows how to do it. It's just incredible.

  Patti LuPone

  Creative, Actors, Matter

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• I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing 'Sin City'. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.

  Frank Miller

  New York, Sin City, Cities

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

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• My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.

  Greg Maddux

  Baseball, Winning, Pitching

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• I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.

  Kary Mullis

  Writing, Kids, Black

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• Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.

  Guy Pearce

  Australia, Listening, Television

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• I get a lot of stuff from Germany - stuffed bugs and tarantulas.

  William Petersen

  Germany, Bugs, Tarantulas

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• I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that." It's got to be something that inspires me and captures my imagination. I want to be able to say "There's a challenge.".

  Karl Urban

  Book, Reading, Imagination

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• One of the biggest things I've done is learn how to love myself, flaws and all. Even the things I don't like about myself, I accept. People have made fun of me and made me self-conscious about talking so softly, for example, but I accept that as who I am and I'm not changing it for anybody. I'm at peace with who I am now, and once you've achieved that, all the other stuff disappears.

  Ricky Williams

  Fun, Self, Who I Am

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• My parents treat me like I'm 14. They make me clean my room and stuff like that. They're always like "I don't care what MTV says you are.".

  Pete Wentz

  Mtv, Parent, Care

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You have to treat yourself every once in a while, get to the fun stuff!

  Heidi Klum

  Fun, Treats, Treat Yourself

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• Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually 'out there' in the world when, in fact, it's not.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Reality, Brain, World

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