- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Derail
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
As human beings, we're powerfully swayed by how much we feel we're being respected. People comply with agreements if they feel they've been treated fairly and lash out if they don't.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who work in horror know they are contributing to a genre that has always been loved and will always be loved - privately. It's the forbidden evil working behind the curtain. My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk into the roped-off tent.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.
- Greatest Reward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.
- Prejudice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
- Longer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
- Propaganda
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- Nov 07, 2020
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020