- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saying Quotes
The gap between what's said and what's meant.
This set focuses on the friction around saying things: doubts other people voice about an unusual project, the strangeness of writing lyrics meant for someone else's voice, and family conflicts that get said and later forgiven. It pairs well with our Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out that I was right when some other guy comes in and says it. Sometimes I just tell my idea to my editor or to some other guy with maybe gray hair to share it, and then it's brilliant!
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger I was influenced by Kanye, his story of coming up and how he kept producing and producing and saying, 'I'm more than just a producer. I'm more than just a writer. I'm more than just a guy in the studio here to give you ideas. I have a story.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not saying I'm perfect. But I'm someone who analyses and reflects on what I do, whether it's in keeping with the ethics that I talk about in public. That's how I've been all my life.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's any actor who is saying we are not insecure, they are lying, because this job is an emotional one.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
- Nov 07, 2020
A party committed to defending the economic interests of rich elites could never win by saying so.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first passion was to create for young girls the idea that you have to be brave and courageous, it's not easy taking big steps and saying, 'I'm going to be a professional dancer'.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted nor needed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020