- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compounded Quotes
How small things grow larger over time.
Something compounded rarely stays small for long, whether it's a belief shaped by necessity or a distraction multiplied by technology, and these quotes trace that snowball effect. The theme echoes through quotes about Art and how creative ideas build on each other.
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- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an actor. Since I was a teenager, I have had to play different characters, negotiating the cultural expectations of a Pakistani family, Brit-Asian rudeboy culture, and a scholarship to private school. The fluidity of my own personal identity on any given day was further compounded by the changing labels assigned to Asians in general.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a universal fascination with the living dead. There is more to a zombie story that a bunch of corpses attacking the living. The real power of such a story lies with the undercurrent of hopelessness compounded by a very real instinct to survive.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest injustices of the Vietnam era is the way our veterans were treated when they returned home. This compounded the pain experienced by those who served. That is a mistake we must never make again.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020