- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Place Quotes
Where you land shapes who you become.
These quotes look at place from more than one angle - the town that never quite feels like "home-home," the city that opens doors for a career, and the place you land after years of searching. Some reflect on where opportunity struck; others just accept a city for what it gave them. Read on for more perspective in our Great Quotes collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not Anthropology for Dummies.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally, I liked feeling able to connect with millions of women on a very deep level. It felt special that women especially would cut out my strip and place it on a refrigerator.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gender discrimination has no place in our workforce.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we should be looking at ways that we can make childcare more available at the place of employment.
- Nov 07, 2020
We've all been in that metaphoric place, having to scream out what you want in the face of your fears.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned most of what I knew about online communities on The Well, and it was a good place to learn. The group of people in Sausalito and Bolinas who'd gotten the Whole Earth Catalog off the ground - a bunch of boomer hippies, intellectuals and nerds - established the 'Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link', and showed us what online communities were.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say, maybe from five years on, I sang on stages constantly. That's what I call my natural habitat: It's a place where I feel most like myself and the most confident, the most excited.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It really bothers me when a guy is controlling. Don't just say 'I'm picking the place' - ask me where I want to go!
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think that two-dimensional film will always be here to stay because it always has its place, but 3D does too.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of two-hander dialogue in 'True Detective,' and I needed to place those guys in locations where there were other levels of visual storytelling. It didn't necessarily have to move the plot forward, but it had to add tone or add to the overall feeling.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020