- Me
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature. For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.
- Some People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it's hard not to be this way at least some of the time.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all would love the idea of people getting what's coming to them in books and in life, but sometimes the trajectory is a little more complicated than that.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say, write what you know, but it's really, write about what obsesses you. Write about what you're thinking about all the time.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I'm more interested in looking at how things change over time, at how people try and sometimes fail to make meaning out of their lives.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like plenty of people have normal-seeming families that, as they're growing up, feel awful. I'd rather have one that looks weird from the outside but felt really normal.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020