- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all attractive concepts, especially to an introvert. In fact, the introverts were probably the first to feel crowded in England and to daydream about all the space they would find in the New World. Peace! Quiet!
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a really dark, emotionally wrenching world that we've created on 'The Walking Dead.'
- Collective Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a collective consciousness around the world that there are things beyond our control that have the power to annihilate us, as a species, and it's all rather frightening.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders, and others succumb to their more base and primal selves and basically transform into savages. It's really a fascinating character study in the exploration of the human psyche.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.
- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had grown up in a world dominated by women - I had aunts and sisters and great-aunts - and I just felt like I lived in a completely female world.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought my father was biggest, tallest, smartest, handsomest man in the world, so if he was telling me something, I was taking it really seriously.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman not being able to be both and artist and a mother: that some very important creative crystal inside a woman would be shattered by the idea of having a child.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no governing structure for a pandemic, and little more than vague political pressure to ensure limited access to life-sparing tools and medicines for more than half the world population.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What if everything I thought was wrong with me was actually right with me? You have to have the courage to show who you are to the world.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020