- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a favourite designer because I feel every designer offers something different and special, but I do really like Alexander Wang, Burberry, Stella McCartney and Balmain.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came on 'The West Wing,' I jumped onto something that was already a steaming locomotive of a hit. It was very exciting for me because I knew, the moment I got the 'West Wing' job, 'Well, hey, so now I'm on a hit show because it already is established and very popular.'
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
What do I want from a book? Something protean, something always on-the-move-or-make - shape-shifting, semantically-and-syntactically-shifting.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'
- Gripping
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have something in our past that is gripping us, and 'Violet' is very much about leaving those things behind.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to read things that are a little more on the nourishing side. But if I don't enjoy something, I'll put it down.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sitting around saying, 'Man, I'd really love to direct a western.' That's just not something I'm probably going to do, mostly because I'm allergic to horses.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.
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- Nov 07, 2020