- Heritage
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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
- Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
If something were brought about without an antecedent cause, it would be untrue that all things come about through fate. But if it is plausible that all events have an antecedent cause, what ground can be offered for not conceding that all things come about through fate?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.
- Respond
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there has been this increasing misperception that kids will not respond to something because it's also for adults. I think that often that tends to get underestimated.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something overwhelming about being in raw nature. It's got an aura about it is that is really kind of majestic and spiritual.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an artist doesn't have anything to say, he'll be quiet. Or he'll yell into the darkness until he finds something and hears something back.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an honor to have been part of something so core to so many lives. The show has evolved beyond it's original intent and form and has transcended... itself!
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020