- Nov 07, 2020
Something Quotes
On possibility and ideas that don't fit a category.
These quotes use 'something' to point at ideas that resist easy labels: a genre dismissed as less than serious, alliances formed for practical reasons, and cultural needs that never fit a fixed category. For more, see our Doing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say, 'Perfection is the flaw. It doesn't exist.' I saw something somewhere about 'porcelain pores' - you're not even allowed to have pores anymore!
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television executives only commission something that somebody else has already commissioned that's doing well on another station - they're afraid of expecting an audience to concentrate for longer than three minutes on any particular item.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to tidy up the entire planet. I would go anywhere if there were something that needs tidying.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one cares about anything until it’s something that goes viral. It’s most certainly frustrating.
- Relax
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you relax too much, the subconscious plays the role; the conscious does something else, rather than the other way around, which is the way it's supposed to be.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020