- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strange Quotes
Some things stay strange no matter how you look at them.
One line reflects on how strange it is that audiences forget actors are simply performing roles that have nothing to do with who they really are, while another turns to astrophysics, calling the properties of pulsars and quasars a genuine scientific challenge. See Know quotes for related reflections.
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- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very involved in political satire, and I'd been writing parody for 'Mad' and 'National Lampoon,' so I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into a lot of fights, but it wasn't because of my name. Being from the neighborhood with a name like Chauncey, people think I got picked on. But a lot of strange names come out of the neighborhood.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A reporter from 'The Times' wanted to arm-wrestle, and as I recall, he kept challenging me. So we went at it, and there was a pop. His arm broke. Very strange. He went into a kind of swoon.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from Anton Chekhov to Denis Johnson, from Flannery O'Connor to A.M. Homes, and perhaps investigating all that strange variation of beauty has rubbed off on me. Or perhaps that's why I enjoy teaching literature.
- Goth
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- Nov 07, 2020