Stuff Quotes - Page 40

• Once you land on who you think the character is and what his conflicts are, you have to let that lead you. You have to throw all that other stuff away and not be worried about this epic responsibility, or it will just crush and paralyze you.

  Zack Snyder

  Crush, Character, Responsibility

  Source: collider.com

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• Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Art, Firsts, Twenties

  "The Third Way: Combining Summer's New Suits & Sportswear". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. May 19, 2009.

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• Bikes are clearly a superior form of transportation when it comes to just simple getting around. A car makes sense if you need to carry a bunch of stuff.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Simple, Car, Needs

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dania Ramirez Talk PREMIUM RUSH, DON JON’S ADDICTION, Hit Record and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that's good, and I want to do it.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Want, Written, Bad Stuff

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus. One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working. Because when there's all this stuff going on, for me to be able to put on headphones and listen to music helps me keep my focus,. A big part of creating a character for me is finding the general palette for what kind of music I'm going to be listening to.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Jobs, Character, Creating

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• I'm pretty brutal about getting rid of stuff. There wasn't anything where I was like, "Oh, I miss that," because usually it's for a good reason.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Missing, Reason, Brutal

  Source: collider.com

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• Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live.

  Jenny Hval

  Needs, Revolution, Bigs

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it's horrible stuff. That you can deal with it.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Years, Six Months, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?

  Debbie Harry

  Art, Successful, Long

  "The Survivors: Debbie Harry". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 4, 2011.

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• My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.

  Bruno Mars

  Mother, Song, Dad

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I'm always in Malibu, and I'm a big fan of surfing and stuff. I love the beach. Someday I will live on the beach.

  Riff Raff

  Beach, Surfing, Fans

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2012.

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• I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It's closest to the choreography of a bee. You're freer.

  Tom Waits

  Writing, Air, Drawing

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2006.

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• My pictures had and have secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did not say back then which I'm saying now... I intend to continue allowing forms of secret life to paintings I'm working on right now because it excites me to do that.

  R. B. Kitaj

  Secret, Painting, Form

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• Selling more stuff to more people more often for more money more efficiently

  Sergio Zyman

  Selling More, People, More Money

  Sergio Zyman (2004). “Renovate Before You Innovate: Why Doing the New Thing Might Not be the Right Thing”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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• People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.

  Sophie Monk

  Real, Thinking, Clothes

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

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• I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Writing, Thinking, Make Sense

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 21, 2010.

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• I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, ‘Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don’t.’ I’m not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

  Carl Honore

  Thinking, Looks, Gadgets

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• The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They're very theatrical and full of audience interaction and emotion. I've seen a lot of people crying and stuff. It's a little bit like church, but it's very secular.

  Tom DeLonge

  Couple, Angel, Play

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• When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.

  Tom DeLonge

  Writing, Rocks, Guitar

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• Part of my passion for all things Christmas is seeing my holiday stuff again every December. I suppose I do have more than most folks, so the reunion each winter keeps me in the holiday spirit for a full year. And there are always a few pieces out in my house whatever the month.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Christmas, Passion, Holiday

  Mary Engelbreit (2003). “Christmas with Mary Engelbreit: The Best Christmas Ever”, p.27, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The creepy stuff was that I have had sex with women who worked for me on this show. Now, my response to that is yes I have. I have had sex with women who worked on this show. Would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Perhaps it would, especially for the women.

  David Letterman

  Sex, Creepy, Embarrassing

  "The Situation Room", www.cnn.com. October 2, 2009.

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• The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down the leg & at the top in front the shirt is pulled through slashes. They are long slim chaps with dandy little moustaches & are most theatrical in effect.

  Edith Durham

  Italian, White, Long

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• When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Real, Blow, Foam

  T. Boone Pickens (2008). “The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future”, p.84, Crown Business

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• I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between.

  Graydon Carter

  Trying, Looks, Bigs

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• Researchers in the U.K. have developed a vegetable called "super broccoli" designed to fight heart disease. Not to be outdone, researchers in America have developed a way to stuff an Oreo inside another Oreo.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Heart, Fighting, Vegetables

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