- Me
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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
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The food in New York is absolutely fabulous. There's always something new around the corner!
- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't take a degree in economics to know that something is wrong when it takes $30 or $40 to fill up the gas tank.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who doesn't want to have a yacht? But I would prefer to invest my money in something else. But I love them. I just wouldn't buy one unless I had a lot, a lot of money.
- Nov 07, 2020
As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.
- Gambling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
- Handing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
- Colored
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- Nov 07, 2020
After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.
- Bridges
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Big Lebowski' was something we wrote for Jeff Bridges, and we set it aside for a couple of years because he wasn't available.
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Barton Fink' owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020