- 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
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.
- Better Writer
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.
- Injustice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Protest theater has a place again. It's not against whites or apartheid. It is against injustice and anything that fails our people.
- War
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always try and find a place for Guy Pearce. The great thing about him is he's so versatile, and I wouldn't work with an actor that much if it weren't for the fact that he had so much versatility.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All life is inherently dangerous. But beyond that, Los Angeles is just a wonderful place to be.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Time' was a glorious place to work in the years that I was there, from 1959 to 1964.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never one for multi-cameras; my approach was always... I always considered there was only one place to be to do a shot.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
- Expects
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- Nov 07, 2020