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- Nov 07, 2020
Way Quotes
Quotes on finding your own way.
These quotes describe the 'way' things really work - a blunt take on how managers actually get ahead in their careers, and a tongue-in-cheek trick for looking fit without the work. Related reading includes Best Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.
- Hard Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social media is such a key organizing and communication tool, and I've made a major commitment to use it as a way to make the legislative process as transparent as possible.
- Street
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success can be obviously a two way street.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.
- Numbers
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all studied math, but we don't go around spewing numbers. Religion should be used in the appropriate way.
- Freshman Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first exercises we did in acting class my freshman year was to stand in two rows, two lines facing each other as a class, and just make sounds and move in some completely nonsensical way out into the center of the room. Sort of make an idiot out of yourself, essentially, but to be okay with that.
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- Nov 07, 2020