- Football Players
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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
- Excused
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- Nov 07, 2020
What kind of pupil was I? Well, I was a swot, but I was allowed to be without any ill effects by my contemporaries because I was excused from games due to my asthma. So being a swot was something to compensate for not being to play football.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Melodrama is something that is created... I don't seen a melodramatic episode of '90210' or any show that relies on that and think, 'Oh, that's life. That's how I experience it.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're starting out, you know, you have to do something on a very limited budget. You're not going to be able to have great actors, and you're most likely not going to have a great script.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
48 frames per second is something you have to get used to. I've got absolute belief and faith in 48 frames... it's something that could have ramifications for the entire industry. 'The Hobbit' really is the test of that.
- Nov 07, 2020
In my family, if something were to have happened with one of my kids, I think my wife would be the tougher one.
- Liberation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something happened to me when I wrote female characters in my early plays; it was a real liberation.
- Better Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.
- Matters
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- Nov 07, 2020
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Australian cast of mind is not something I would want to be without - and I couldn't be without. It's not a choice.
- Funny Movie
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a rare film that has staying power. 'A Christmas Story' is not just a funny movie but something that connects with people.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could hardly believe that she really existed, that she wasn't a dream. There was something miraculous about Dorothy Stratten.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020