Stuff Quotes - Page 38

• I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries. Maybe it's helped me attain a certain fluidity with my style.

  Josh Lieb

  College, Style, Fluidity

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.

  Josh Lieb

  Writing, Mind, Throwing

  "Wanna Write For Latenight? Get Tips From A 'Tonight Show' Producer". Interview with Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. May 4, 2015.

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• I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.

  Natalie Portman

  Trying, Attention, Use

  "Natalie Portman on Her New Role: Giving Women Hope". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2008.

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• I get freaked out by pills. Everyone I know is always like, "I'm just going to take a Valium or an Ambien on the plane." But I can't do any of that stuff - it scares me.

  Natalie Portman

  Scare, Pills, Valium

  Interview with Jake Gyllenhaal, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2009.

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• I like searching for the collision detection boundaries, finding invincibility glitches, and purposefully doing other stuff that normal players aren't supposed to do. In order words, I'm a bug checker.

  Hidetaka Suehiro

  Player, Order, Bugs

  "Beer, Masturbation, And Twin Peaks: A Conversation With Swery65". Interview with Patrick Klepek, kotaku.com. May 1, 2015.

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• I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.

  Quincy Jones

  Writing, Dna, Causes

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Inteview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• I enjoy the process of writing collaboration so there's some stuff that already that may happen and then some stuff that I'm initiating that I may write on my own.

  Oren Moverman

  Writing, Collaboration, May

  Source: collider.com

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• I was really into R&B and stuff like that, so I really wanted to sing like Faith Evans or Mariah Carey. But I definitely don't have the skills to sing like that.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Skills, Wanted

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

  Bob Gunton

  Catholic, Guilt, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I really do know what I want with my life. I think that keeps me from making bad decisions and spending time doing stuff I don't enjoy.

  Tove Styrke

  Thinking, Decision, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like Everwood that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny. I've always tried to find a funny angle on things, and 99 percent of the time, it just doesn't work.

  Chris Pratt

  Directors, Stopping, Angle

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, tv.avclub.com. November 3, 2009.

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• I do have rules, and etiquette things. I think it's a southern thing too, to an extent. I'll hold the door for someone, but if they don't say, "Thank you," it pisses me off. I say, "Yes, ma'am," and, "Yes, sir." Stuff that is maybe archaic in a lot of ways, but that's how I was raised, and I don't think there's really any harm in that.

  Chris Black

  Thinking, Doors, Southern

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do think that I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff.

  Diplo

  Thinking, Creating, Scene

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, "I watch your show, I'm not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it's about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times." That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn't about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it's about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.

  Bear Grylls

  Running, Jobs, Attitude

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up.

  Cat Deeley

  Stars, Paper, Pops

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• I don't think a lot of people listen to their old stuff, do they? I spent a long time making it, so I don't really want to spend much time listening to it again.

  Kate Bush

  Thinking, Long, People

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I spend a lot of time working and with my family, so I don't have much time around the edges to do much else. I don't really listen to a great deal of music. I love music, but since I spend a lot of time in the studio, we probably watch a movie rather than listen to albums. I get to hear stuff, but not on the grand scale.

  Kate Bush

  Albums, Watches, Music Love

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.

  Joe Fafard

  Together, Clay, Woods

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• I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way.

  Chuck Close

  Thinking, Three, Sculpture

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• There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

  Mark Strand

  Writing, Would Be, Want

  Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

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• I like things pretty reduced. I don't understand how people live with so much stuff around them, because you can't focus on it, and after a while it ends up becoming absorbed. It's not as if anything's really being appreciated. To me all that stuff is some desperate message to everyone about who you are, like bumper stickers.

  Rick Owens

  People, Focus, Messages

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• I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. Theres a lot of cool stuff in there all the heartbreak of the country darkness.

  Theophilus London

  Country, Heart, Darkness

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• I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.

  Tim Heidecker

  Long, Political, News

  "How Herman Cain Became a Tim and Eric Character". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. November 12, 2011.

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• I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.

  Dionne Bromfield

  People, Design

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• When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.

  Rachel Gibson

  Pain, Locks

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