- Compilation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moment Quotes
Staying present, one moment at a time.
This set of moment quotes includes a reflection on searching for clear definitions in matters of faith, alongside a described moment of sudden clarity after being chosen for a major project. Another simply savors the pleasure of remembering shared moments together. Related reflections continue in our Love quotes.
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- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved back to Buffalo in 2009, and I had this moment where I wanted to have the best of both worlds. I wanted to be able to be in church and cook at home but then still get on a plane and fly back to New York and be this supermodel.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have written with some amazing singers and songwriters - the moment with Snoop Dogg was amazing - but being able to tell an Aboriginal story is bigger than anything that I have ever known.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had my bad-boy moment in my teens. I'll never do that again. It wasn't pleasant, and I learned my lesson. It was sexy and mysterious, and it's like, 'Look how cool they are,' but it's just not worth it. He was lying to me and accusing me of cheating - but then I realized he was the one cheating.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I jokingly call this convergence of games into reality the 'Gamepocalypse:' the moment when every moment of life is actually a game.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I'm afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it's what makes great actors - being in the moment.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer to write about ordinary people who find themselves in a singularly bizarre situation - that is to say, the one moment in their lives when they are forced to confront danger or mystery.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.
- Posing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don't think about yesterday, and they don't think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.
- Jobs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The JOBS Act is the 'topic of the moment.'
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in monstrosities, and 'I Am Abraham' is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out moment by moment with its contrapuntal songs, as if a band of musicians were at play, all of them with Lincoln's beard and disturbing grey eyes.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020