These Days Quotes - Page 17

• My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Jobs, Skills, Entrepreneur

  Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.

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• Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Winning, Feelings, Nominations

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• Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don't want to do it because it's the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right.

  River Phoenix

  Goal, Waiting, Albums

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

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• It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.

  Johnny Cash

  Real, Men, Devil

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• Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Friends, Kids, Thinking

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• There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.

  Keith Richards

  Dope, Demon, Stills

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• I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.

  John Lithgow

  Ideas, Littles, Remember

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• I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio. The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred DunnockVery few get into it, and it is absolutely free. It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.

  James Dean

  School, People, House

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• If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.

  James Dean

  Progress, World, Might

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• These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.

  Jane Russell

  Christian, Mean, Wings

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

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• The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we're nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas.

  Mark Frost

  Ideas, Icons, Superhero

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• These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

  Tom Berenger

  Running, Years, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of these days... One of these days... Pow! Right in the kisser!

  Jackie Gleason

  Honeymooners, Pow

  "Fictional characters: Ralph Kramden". "The Honeymooners", TV Series (1955–1956)., www.imdb.com.

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• Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

  Gates McFadden

  Television, Information, Misery

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• I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?

  Emmanuel Lubezki

  Abuse, Film, Incredibles

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• You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close to him. But after six years he feels the urge to get in the studio with musicans he likes. He closely follows bands like Arcade Fire in recent months. But he is inspired by ancient Chinese folk and jazz these days as well.

  Gail Ann Dorsey

  Children, Growing Up, Men

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• God knows nothing gets accomplished in the world these days without terrorism.

  Manil Suri

  World, Terrorism, Accomplished

  Manil Suri (2014). “The City of Devi”, p.162, A&C Black

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• That's how things are these days: everything must move aside to make room for the new, all the time.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Moving, Rooms

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2012). “Let the Old Dreams Die”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

  Harold Bloom

  Heart, Mean, Solitude

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• Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way people, including me, enjoy talking knowledgeably about how the world will end. I drove to Tucson and saw the desert flowering on either side of the road. And I glanced at my spam to see what people wanted to sell me these days.

  Rae Armantrout

  Lying, Book, Talking

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• Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection. A lack of discipline is apparent these days in just about every aspect of American society. Why? This should be is a much larger question, one to ponder as we take out the garbage and tie our kids' shoes.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Kids, Shoes, Ties

  "Spoiled Rotten". www.newyorker.com. July 2, 2012.

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• There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

  Donna Tartt

  Couple, Years, Expectations

  "Conversation with Donna Tartt, Author of 'The Little Friend'". Random House interview, www.randomhouse.com. October, 2003.

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• These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I am not certain what this cure is meant to mend. Perhaps I am learning to live amongst the living again. Practising, I mean. But no, that is not it. Being here is just a way of not being anywhere.

  John Banville

  Mean, World, Way

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• My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Long, Childhood, Portraits

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• From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Spiritual, Winter

  Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.123, GENERAL PRESS

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