- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back Quotes
Words about returning, backing up, and standing behind what matters.
This collection gathers lines built around the small word 'back' in surprisingly different contexts: political leverage handed back to Congress, actors returning from a shoot, and even a beauty routine built on backing up one step with another. See more reflective lines in our Always collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
- Horizon
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- Nov 07, 2020
The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.
- Broader
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look back throughout history from the ancient Egyptians onwards, most cultures started making clothing from a very basic premise: a single piece of cloth.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything's burnt.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I grew older, I worked less as an actor and as a model, and I went back to what I had tried to do when I was young but wasn't really available. I'm so glad now to be in my sixties and to be able to go back to school.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Southern Virginia. They migrated to Washington and I wouldn't even exist if it were not for that migration. And I brought her back to Georgia, both my parents, actually.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020