- Important
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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
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but sometimes.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty professional. I'm very aware when I'm not playing well and what I need to improve. I'm pretty motivated to fix things. There are guys out there who are not realistic; they don't like to take blame for certain things they don't do well. That's the nature of doubles sometimes: it's easy to find faults in your partner.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives the world over need to grasp the difference between being pro-market and being pro-business. Sometimes the two positions happen to coincide; often they don't.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think sometimes with the parsnip, people are maybe a little afraid and don't use it as often.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes there's cities where it's just hard to find healthy food. You just have to be prepared.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.
- Flooded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020