- Acting Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mystery Quotes
On suspense, secrecy, and the pull of not knowing.
These quotes move between a filmmaker's take on the ongoing-killer structure of a horror franchise and an unrelated aside on how intuitive a modern device can be. A more poetic line asks for a plain, quiet mystery rather than an elaborate one. Try Mystery riddles for a playful companion page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
- Escaped
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless a design is infused with a personality - and by that, I mean mine or someone else who really understands what design is all about - it will never, ever have any mystery.
- Great Actor
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of mystery.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Shetland' is adapted from the novel 'Red Bones.' The book is based around an archaeological dig, and the mystery starts with the murder of the elderly woman who crofts the land where the dig is happening.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a mystery to myself.
- NHS
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to go mystery shopping in the NHS because we have a million people every day using it and rating its facilities.
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020