- People
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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
- Relief
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- Nov 07, 2020
Programmers seem to be changing the world. It would be a relief, for them and for all of us, if they knew something about it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm nervous, I know I care about something - you should be nervous about things that you want.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
- Drugstore
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to make sure that when I'm running out to the drugstore I'm not wearing a Biore strip or something. Not that I expect anyone to recognize me, but on the off chance they do, I just don't want to embarrass myself.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's something I want to do: cover all sorts of genres to find the one I love most.
- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to find a way to represent something that is truly frightening on stage is a fascinating challenge.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, from something that looks like a PowerPoint lecture to something that looks like an informercial to something that looks like a cinematic melodrama.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020