- Nov 07, 2020
Things Quotes
The little word that covers everything.
"Things" is a catch-all, and the quotes collected here reflect that — a former mathematician recalling early academic interests, artists describing what inspires them, and honest admissions about not knowing what you want to become. For more on that last theme, see Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Try
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
- Nov 07, 2020
I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job description? It is many things; it is a whole universe created around the things that I like.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.
- Inspired
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm inspired by nonmusical things a lot, whether it's a film or a book or whatever.
- Exposition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find oppressive.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to find a lifelong female film editor as Scorsese has with Thelma Schoonmaker. I think women are probably, without generalising, sensitive to subtle things as an editor.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I claim I'm the opposite of my characters, then it'll just sound awful. But I tend to write the sort of things I'd never say because I'm not a very forceful person.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a journal, and every character that I play, I write as the character: how I feel about things and how I'm going to play it.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020