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- 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
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shooting guns is not something I would do in my spare time. I really don't understand why Americans can purchase guns so easily and why they use them for sporting purposes.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe some young girl seeing me on the Emmy stage may have meant something for them.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just really want be proud of the work I'm doing, whether it's something I've written, produced, or am starring in. I just want to be proud of it.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doors being closed or made harder to open is something I'm very familiar with - and I don't like it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I would say to someone, 'Make your own stuff sooner.' Also, it's OK to say no to something if it doesn't feel right.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
- Nov 07, 2020
If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.
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- Nov 07, 2020