These Days Quotes - Page 9

• I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Trying, Directors, Way

  "Anthony Hopkins: 'I've never been really close to anyone'". Interview With John Crace, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.

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• I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twiddle away on the pipe organ like the Disney version of Captain Nemo. But I don’t. I’m sort of the arcane equivalent of a classic computer geek. I do magic, in one form or another, and that’s pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days

  Jim Butcher

  Fall, Play, Magic

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.87, Penguin Group

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• What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

  John le Carre

  Misery, Journalist, Reports

  John le Carre (2002). “The Honourable Schoolboy”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

  Shawn Ryan

  Thinking, Expectations, Bars

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• Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

  Jerry Saltz

  Past, Artist, Giving

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• These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Flesh Eating, Viruses

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• I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready

  Richard Peck

  Want, Towns, Ready

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• If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

  Hal Sparks

  Mean, Commitment, Rights

  "Hal Sparks, ‘Gay-Adjacent’ Star of Queer As Folk , Explains Why He Supports LGBT Equality" by Charlotte Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2012.

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• The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!'

  Kristen Stewart

  Twilight, Insane, Want

  Interview with Dennis Hopper, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2009.

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• When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.' And from 'debt' it's just a short hop to other unpleasant words, like 'payola,' 'kickback,' and 'bribery.'

  James Surowiecki

  College, Thinking, Mind

  "Rent-Seekers". www.newyorker.com. August 13, 2007.

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• Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.

  David Suzuki

  People, Mind, Energy

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• Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Divorce, Vow

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• Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  News, Priceless, Should

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

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• The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

  Calvin Trillin

  Expression, Magazines, Firsts

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• A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

  Peter Ustinov

  Diplomats, Diplomacy, Waiter

  "Romanoff and Juliet".

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• I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

  Eddie Vedder

  People, Kind, Imagine

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• I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

  Jody Watley

  Writing, Ideas, Singing

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• The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

  Juan Williams

  Winning, Presidential, Political

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• I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Giving, Pimp, Agents

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• Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to wake me up. Something to help me sleep. Something to calm my nerves. There was a time when I was able to wake up, go to sleep, and have fun without a pill or a line to help me function. These days it felt like I might have a nervous breakdown if I didn't have them.

  Cherie Currie

  Fun, Sleep, Addiction

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• To put it a little crudely, these days nobody is afraid of excommunication. If they decide they don't want to be Catholic anymore and want to become Episcopalians or Hindus, they just do it. The churches no longer have the disciplinary powers to keep their followers in check. That means that they have to accept much more feeding up from below than they had to in the past.

  Ninian Smart

  Mean, Past, Catholic

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Suicide, Murder, Young

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• For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy. Among the many things in the infinitely varied universe with which Granny did not hold was talking to dead people, who by all accounts had enough troubles of their own.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Book, Talking

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• We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

  Frank Herbert

  Giving Up, Moving, Fall

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.103, Penguin

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• Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days.

  Douglas Coupland

  Home, Thinking, Shoes

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