- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certain Way Quotes
On the habits that quietly become who we are.
This collection of certain way quotes looks at how personal instinct shapes craft and appearance alike, from a musician's untaught technique to someone insisting their style isn't meant to draw attention. It connects to our Feel collection.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each production has certain circumstances that will bring you to a certain way of making it. It is not intentional, it is not an artistic decision, the way we make films, it is the way we address to our problems.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I dress in a certain way and do my hair and makeup in a certain way, it's not to get attention.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.
- Kiss
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first kiss was with a girlfriend. And it was at a party. I think I was hopeful that that would happen, but I didn't plan it. You know, honestly, I think if there's a little too much planning, it's almost just like self-sabotage. Because then, you want it to go a certain way and it just doesn't. And then you're like, 'Awww, why?'
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be very rigid because I just wanted to get through it. Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way with ease.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never actually been exposed to the hardships that proper soldiers endure. I also think you need a particular constitution to be a soldier - built a certain way and wired a certain way. I don't know if I'd be too good with being told what to do all the time. I am a law-abider, but I've got a lot of questions and opinions, so maybe not.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that.
- Sex
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- Nov 07, 2020
So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would do Kermit, there were certain faces that he made. There was a certain way he stood, a certain kind of body language that he had.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everyone thinks their dad is a little bit odd or crazy. As they get older, they develop their own little habits. They have a certain way that they like to live their life, and nothing is going to interrupt that.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say I never felt 'latched' to a gender. I just kind of always felt like myself, and I never felt like I had to do certain things or be a certain way to fit into a certain mold.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020