- Money
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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
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the days before the Internet, there was no place to put a short film, so Mike Gribble and Spike Decker had this festival of animation. My student films got selected.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.
- Hardened
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world has devolved into a much more hardened and lethal place since that devastating September morning when Islamists assassinated nearly 3,000 Americans in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020