- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Situation Quotes
How people actually respond when a situation shows up.
A few situation quotes here come from unexpected angles, one performer recalling how much fun an odd voice role turned out to be, another imagining a better outcome if future leaders had taught in high-need schools first. The Best collection covers related optimism.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.
- Nov 07, 2020
I totally go against the theory that you got to win to be successful. It's how you handle your situation.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied and grew as a man so that the situation of being wrongly accused wouldn't define me.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this league you might have a quarterback within your division that you're worried about running all over the place, the next week it's a running back, so to be able to have multiple answers for every situation is probably a benefit for everybody.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020