Wraps Quotes - Page 17

• I'm really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that's really allowed me to wrap my mind around some of the bigger intellectual concepts and really understand the language around identity in the gender nonconforming community.

  Lena Dunham

  Real, Community, Soul

  "Lena Dunham talks Suited: Fashion is a new way into [the LGBTQ] conversation". Interview with Dana Getz, ew.com. June 20, 2016.

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• I think the worst thing you can do is take an arrogant approach and not give people enough content to wrap their heads around.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Laughter, Love Is

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it's so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Intelligent, Thinking, Important

  "Benedict Cumberbatch - "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. December, 2013.

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• I've always played Vash [in the Sausage Party]. I played him at the table read. We probably did five or six table reads over the course of the first five years of trying to get it made and finally getting it made. I saw a lot of actors come and go, but I stuck around, so I guess they were happy with what I was doing. No one could play a lavash wrap like I could.

  David Krumholtz

  Party, Years, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In this case, I don't know why they [Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg] thought I would be a good lavash wrap or I would do a good Middle Eastern accent. They just assumed I would. They called one day, and they're like, "They're doing this read-through for Sausage Party, and you're going to play a lavash wrap in it." After I looked up what a lavash wrap was, I was like, "Oh, cool."

  David Krumholtz

  Party, Play, One Day

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I write characters focusing on them as human beings, and then you wrap them within a culture. So I think I can connect with him as a person with brown skin who's viewed differently by the world. In terms of his culture, we're thinking about where we are locating Wakanda within the continent, and what the people and history of that region are like. It's a process of investigation to help inform the story at this point. But we are going to be engaged with consultants who are experts on the continent and on African history and politics.

  Joe Robert Cole

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  "Oscars So White? Black Panther to the Rescue". Interview with Brandon E. Patterson, www.motherjones.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I can just generally say that Iran is a very multilayered, controversial country. There are so many contrasts and controversies that question themselves within whole different layers. It's not an easy place to wrap up in one answer or one question. It's a very multicultural, multiethnic place.

  Jason Rezaian

  Country, Iran, Answers

  "From captivity to classroom". Interview with Christina Pazzanese, news.harvard.edu. September 12, 2016.

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• We created this journey [in the Begin], sonically, that people can really wrap their heads around and live with and get to know us a little bit more. The dark colors, the light colors, our up-tempos, and our down-dreamy stuff.

  Jillian Hervey

  Dark, Journey, Color

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Have a core concept, but wrap it in a full business model.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Models, Core, Concepts

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I don't care how fancy you wrap trash, it's still trash.

  T. D. Jakes

  Care, Fancy, Trash

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• The biggest surprise was a picture my mom sent me, just about the time that we were about to wrap up the book, of me as a 5-year-old dressed in my first Halloween costume that she made for me. I said, "What's this? I never saw this photo." And she said, "We made you this black-and-orange Halloween costume out of crepe paper" - we were too poor to have fabric back then - "and you wanted to go as the Queen Of Halloween." And I was like, "What?" And she said, "Yeah, the Princess Of Halloween, the Queen Of Halloween, something like that.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Mom, Queens, Halloween

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• I myself often feel that I have a tail in my pants. And I can see that many people do it as well, I am sure some of them simply wrap it around themselves.

  Ivan Tverdovsky

  People, Tails, Pants

  Source: collider.com

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• Everything Jumpy could do [in Valley of Violence] was too much. If I put it in the movie you would all check out. When he wraps himself up in the blanket, that's as far as I could go, and that's not even close. The dog's amazing.

  Ti West

  Dog, Valleys, Too Much

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can just start writing, but you're gonna go off on 10 or 12 starts and weird tangents, and yeah you'll have those pages to use later - to gift wrap some fish for your mother - but either way you're gonna have pages.

  Shane Black

  Mother, Writing, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• English was my fourth language. I arrived, I enrolled in public school, as a child, I believe I was about six years old when we finally landed in Michigan. And I was initially put in special education because I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the English language because I was listening to Hungarian and Albanian and German. My mind broke down like I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the fourth language.

  Masiela Lusha

  Children, Believe, School

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that they see the song.

  Gerard Way

  Song, Brain, Way

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug.

  Winston Churchill

  Friendship, Running, Dog

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• God specifically created us to be like Him. This is impossible to wrap our minds around, but God created us like Him in some respect and then set us in the midst of this world to represent Him!

  Francis Chan

  Mind, World, Impossible

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.478, David C Cook

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• A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Beauty, Girl

  P.J. O'Rourke (2009). “Peace Kills”, p.120, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

  Hugh Newell Jacobsen

  Art, Opportunity, Fish Tanks

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• Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Naked, Body, Clothings

  Neale Donald Walsch (2000). “Questions and Answers on Conversations with God”, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

  Charles Bukowski

  Mad, Sick, Bird

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.235, Canongate Books

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• When you give in to aversion and anger, it’s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Rivers, Giving, Water

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• Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.

  Andre Malraux

  Stars, Night, Men

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