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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
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
- Motivate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personal titles aren't something which motivate me.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
- Graceful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
- Joker
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally my response to seeing something really symmetrical and perfect is... it's the scene with Jack Nicholson's Joker in the first 'Batman,' the museum scene. Him just spray-painting the Mona Lisa, and whatever, with his goons.
- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm not using something, I tend to sell it and move on, so I'm not too sentimental about hardware synths.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020