Unusual Quotes - Page 25

• I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.

  Susan Orlean

  Fun, Ordinary, Reader

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• When you drive to the grocery store, your intention is not to change the world, it just happens to have that impact. So we've done a lot of things without even realizing it, and yes, just being unusual, as you say, does not put you above, in a sense, any of the other organisms with whom we share this planet.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Impact, Doe, Done

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I walk into a market I may see a different cut of meat or an unusual vegetable and think, ‘I wonder how it would be if I took the recipe for that sauce I had in Provence and put the two together?’ So I go home and try it out. Sometimes my idea is a success and sometimes it is a flop, but that is how recipes are born. There really are not recipes, only millions of variations sparked by someone’s imagination and desire to be a little creative and different. American cooking is built, after all, on variations of old recipes from around the world.

  James Beard

  Home, Cutting, Thinking

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• Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

  Herbert Simon

  Innovation, Surprise, Ability

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• I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!

  Paul Taylor

  Nature, Odds, Want

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• Historically, it's very unusual after a change of government for the new government not to be returned.

  George Brandis

  Government, New Government

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I worked on it [ Too Much Tuna] for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience. I couldn't believe how enthusiastic the audience was for it. It was just extraordinary. It felt like you were at a rock concert, which was just unusual for shows at Cherry Lane, which are usually intimate plays about big ideas, you know.

  Alex Timbers

  Believe, Rocks, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It will be an unusual dynamic [in Congress]. It won't be like the rallying behind President [Barack] Obama in 2009 or behind President [George W.] Bush, even at the beginning of his presidency, or even [Bill] Clinton in '93, when he got his budget through on a partisan vote.

  William Kristol

  President, Bills, Vote

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• One of the great things about the film being so unusual and provocative is the filmmaker to me doesn't seem to have a definite opinion on the rights or wrongs or the immorality of behaviors and systems, he just presents a set of very unusual circumstances and asked the audience to partake in the judging of what feels right or wrong or what feels natural and unnatural.

  Colin Farrell

  Rights, Judging, Opinion

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Two billion people watched the royal wedding. Clearly, they're interested in that - the outside of what appears to be lives that have a certain amount of privilege. They have gifts, they have history, they have a sort of unusual and separate position, which maybe involves paying a price.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Two, Royal Wedding, People

  "Actor-director Kenneth Branagh". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 5, 2011.

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• I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

  Ransom Riggs

  Growing Up, Kids, Florida

  Ransom Riggs (2012). “Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• As I found out making this last movie ["Method"], if you ever do things in an unusual, different way, you got to fight because there's no way people will let you.

  Duncan Roy

  Fighting, People, Different

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It would be quite unusual for me to get deep into a project and then shitcan it. One of the advantages of having done this for a while is that I have a better sense than I used to of when something is or isn't working. Until I developed that sense, this was a pretty dicey career for me, both in terms of paying the rent, and emotional wear and tear.

  Neal Stephenson

  Emotional, Careers, Tears

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

  Lori Lansens

  Winning, Unlikely, Lottery

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are quite engaging, accessible, and even funny.

  Jenni Olson

  Thinking, Film, Pacing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.

  Ron Wyden

  Regret, Unique, Technology

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What you want to acquire, you should dare to acquire by any means. What you want to see, even though it is with difficulty, you should see. You should not let it pass, thinking there will be another chance to see it or acquire it. It is quite unusual to have a second chance to materialize your desire.

  Yosa Buson

  Mean, Thinking, Second Chance

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• My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. Its about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

  Lisa Jakub

  Children, Growing Up, Book

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• Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool.

  Nita Leland

  Block, Views, Creative

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.18, North Light Books

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• It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when you were an alienated teenager.

  Adrian Tomine

  Teenager, Water, Special

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

  Salvador Dali

  Ideas, Usual, Able

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• One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

  E. M. Forster

  Grows, Understood, Accustomed

  Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), Natwar-Singh, K (1964). “E.M. Forster: a Tribute. With Selections from His Writings on India. Edited, and with an Introd. by K. Natwar-Singh. Contributors: Ahmed Ali [and Others.]”, New York Harcourt

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• And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing and all that stuff is done before you shoot the movie. That's an unusual way to work.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Editing, Waiting, Done

  "Immersed in Movies: Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson Talk ‘Anomalisa’ and Adult Stop-Motion". Interview with Bill Desowitz, blogs.indiewire.com. November 16, 2015.

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• Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Humility, Play, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.

  John C. Bogle

  Data, Long, Support

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons

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