- Drifting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes Quotes
The exceptions that shape the rule.
"Sometimes" is the hinge word in this collection, softening bigger claims into honest exceptions — including a candid look at why people take jobs in law enforcement despite the risks. For quotes on feeling and mood, see Feel quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes nationalism can be jingoistic - even fascistic - but it can also be a constructive impetus that helps to unify a nation. Those whose nationalist critique of parties finds resonance with masses of voters can acquire vast power. We can only hope that they know what to do with it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it, or if coming back and it accidentally goes through the X-ray machine and it gets overexposed, you might have had a really important moment to you and you would be really upset that you didn't have a back-up.
- Gym
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I did three shows a day and I’d go to the gym. I was exercising excessively and cut out many meals.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
As well as Pilates, I like doing little YouTube videos on my phone. Sometimes it can just be a five or 10 minute little workout.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do paint, and I wanted to actually be a painter. Sometimes I'll whip out paints. It's tough to find the motivation, but it's also a solitary, lonely occupation. What I like about acting is that it is such a collaborative thing.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's sometimes a little embarrassing to take selfies, but sometimes I want to take a selfie because I'm like, 'Oh I look cute. I like my hat. I like what I'm wearing, and I want to show it off.'
- Text
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next.
- Small
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.
- Rain
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020