- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Distance Quotes
How distance changes what we see and feel.
Several of these quotes treat distance as a matter of perspective - a fairy-land view of literature that loses its charm on closer approach, and a photographer describing every horizon as revealing another beyond it. See Far quotes for a related angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Travel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many photographers get involved with the people whom they take pictures of; others prefer being observers, keeping a certain distance.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
- Befriend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alicia Silverstone from 'Clueless' plays the role of the quintessential buttoned-up beauty who still knows how to throw down. She's intimidating from a distance but happy to befriend the new girl and show her the lay of the land.
- Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
- Commuting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as you know that someone is running for office, it puts a distance between you and that person.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter 1. Some of the narrative tension comes from that distance between what the readers know and what the characters know.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love the idea of never seeing a city before and seeing the glow in the distance, and it just looking frightening, like you're driving into a fire.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I've done it by living in the country within commuting distance.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love people that go the distance. I hate things that are lukewarm. They've got to be one way or the other and go all the way.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
From their breakout 2002 single, 'Losing My Edge,' LCD Soundsystem have offered a unique combination of geek knowledge, passion and intelligent, ironic distance.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020