- Nothing
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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
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not every woman has what I have, so if I could do something to help them, that should also be my duty.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom - when I complained about my weight, she asked me if I wanted to keep complaining or do something about it. Then she took me to Weight Watchers when I was 10 years old, meetings and all!
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm making a song that's very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to have someone else do something on it.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opening up is something I have to learn how to do if I'm going to be in this business.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
- Prejudice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Pride and Prejudice' with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle was something I watched on a weekly basis with my mum at home in Oxfordshire.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong.
- Different Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stopped being interested in improvisation, and I continue to not be that interested in it. Comedians can do it on a different level because they have a goal, but if you're improvising something that's dramatic, there's not that much to be good at.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started snowboarding, it was something that was only really done in the winter. Mount Hood in Oregon was the magical exception.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020