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“A lot of the exercise of embracing identity as a political affirmation is not just simply parked in the question of skin color or culture, but more it is a political affirmation with all these implications and more.”

Political Culture Identity Color Exercise Skins Affirmation Implications Skin Color

Author:Bocafloja

“A lot of the experiences I write about could be described as grasping for boundaries, trying to find the limits of things.”

Writing Trying Limits Boundaries Grasping

Author:Melissa Febos

“A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.”

People Men War Fiction Growing Up Growing Generations Modern Mad Posts Manhattan Modern Times Mad Men Post War

Author:Dylan Moran

“A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.”

People Film Winning Awards

Author:Martin Compston

“A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.”

Trying Kids Film Law Space Technology Fantasy Honor Physics Exploration Fascinated Space Exploration Laws Of Physics

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.”

Years Wells Made Film Values Fashion Years Ago Old Fashion

Author:Steven Spielberg

“A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.”

Thinking Should School Film Actors Drama Directors Focused Visuals

Author:Eva Green

“A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.”

Trying Firsts Done Lying Fun Lines Mystery Stage Return Nonsense Again And Again Penetrate

Author:Anthony Hecht

“A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.”

Firsts Real Form Stuff Space Fiction Science Fiction Genre Baptism Futuristic Very Cool

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything. They don't understand why people end up in politics; they would do much more good for the world if they worked at Google or Facebook.”

People Ifs World Believe Ends Ability Accomplish Valleys Google Geek Silicon Silicon Valley

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.”

Girl Grew Lucky Grew Up Pregnant Were Pregnant

Author:Jill Scott

“A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.”

Age Able Wanted Spiritual Girl Stuff Fame Conversation Pages Intellectual Silly Impressed Money And Fame Silly Stuff

Author:Nick Cannon

“A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.”

Ideas Girl Environment Saws Like You Awful No Idea Anorexia

Author:Kate Winslet

“A lot of the good cameraman who we used are doing television work; they're doing commercials for a lot of money. And the commercials look incredible. But what's it about? I made three major commercial campaigns. I enjoyed it, I experimented with it, and at the end of the day I felt no satisfaction. It was like having a fast food lunch.”

Looks Made Ends Used Three Felt Television Majors Incredibles Satisfaction Campaigns Enjoyed The End Of The Day Lunch Lots Of Money Fast Food And At The End Of The Day Cameraman

Author:Oliver Stone

“A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'”

Ideas Interesting Boys Management Add Invention Engineers Google

Author:Eric Schmidt

“A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.”

Has Beens Songwriting Songwriters Singer Songwriters Collaborators Lyricists

Author:Mike Gordon

“A lot of the guilt didn't help my drinking at that point. I never expected a divorce to happen in my life particularly, but it just slowly happened. My wife was proud of me, but she hated the business, and for good reason. The spouses get moved, shoved aside, and ignored, and it's just, it's terrible.”

Reason Helping Wife Proud Terrible Moved Guilt Drinking Divorce My Wife Hated Ignored Spouse Proud Of Me

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.”

Guy Band My Friends

Author:Audrina Patridge

“A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.”

People Helping Young Guy Wings Oscars

Author:Quincy Jones

“A lot of the hallmark behaviors of autism - flat affect, stimming, not looking someone in the eye - could very easily be misinterpreted as signs of guilt.”

Eye Behavior Guilt Flats Autism Hallmark Misinterpreted

Author:Jodi Picoult

“A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.”

Mind Sports Levels High Level

Author:Ronald Graham

“A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.”

Writing Artist Hip Hop Hips Hops Hip Hop Artist

Author:Roy Ayers

“A lot of the hot music today comes from what's being done in R&B and hip-hop.”

Done Today Hot

Author:Damon Thomas

“A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.”

Use News Photograph Stealing Consumed

Author:Nate Lowman

“A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.”

Humans Interesting Cities Issues Economic Behavior Models Human Behavior Dynamics Economic Issues

Author:Will Wright

“A lot of the issues I faced in junior high was what got me into animation. It was easier to sit on the side and draw cartoons than to engage with people.”

People Sides Issues Easier Draws Cartoon Animation Juniors Junior High

Author:Pete Docter

“A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.”

Film Found Issues Shots Rhythm Editing Sequence

Author:Frederick Wiseman

“A lot of the issues of the Dallas Cowboys yesterday having pressure on Tony Romo, came from the outside pressure.”

Issues Pressure Yesterday Cowboy Dallas Dallas Cowboy

Author:Emmitt Smith

“A lot of the issues that I see, it is not an either-or situation.”

Situation Issues Either Or

Author:Barack Obama

“A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.”

Giving Fans Give Me Jewelry

Author:Taylor Swift

“A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.”

World Jobs Protect

Author:Kay Ryan

“A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.”

Character Would Be Stuff Situation Jokes Ultimate Nasty Payoff

Author:Shawn Wayans

“A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it.”

Order Technology Design Keys Apples Succes

Author:Peter Thiel

“A lot of the kind of comedy that I do comes out of real human moments. For them to work, they have to be truthful kinds of things that people in the audience can go, "Yes, I've experienced that myself!"”

People Humans Kind Real Moments Audience Comedy Truthful Being Truthful Real Human

Author:Brian Regan

“A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.”

People Trying Roles Models Role Models Twelve Thirteen Kinship Impressionable

Author:Adrian Tomine

“A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.”

Break Machines Cracks Bats Lad Bowling

Author:Andrew Flintoff

“A lot of the left wants social change to look like the French Revolution or Che Guevara. Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war.”

War Violence Uprising French Revolution Leftism Che Guevara

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“A lot of the letters that are coming in - a lot of them are queries or comments - are one sentence long... These are from Twitter. And if you look at the nature of those one sentence letters, most of the time it's something that came to somebody's mind - somebody walking down the street had a thought and sent it out. If they thought about it for two minutes they would not have sent it.”

Ifs Mind Looks Long Two Streets Minutes Walking Letters Sentences Comment One Sentence Queries

Author:Noam Chomsky

“A lot of the listeners don't realize that the Daytona 24 Hours is the most difficult race in the world. It's 24 hours, a lot of darkness because it's held at the end of January, so you're talking about 13-14 hours of darkness.”

World Ends Difficult Realizing Hours Race Talking Darkness Listeners January Daytona

Author:Scott Pruett

“A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.”

Way Ideas Lyrical

Author:Thurston Moore

“A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable.”

Technology Google Startup Startups Linux Server Pc Servers

Author:Jessica Livingston

Source: Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

“A lot of the main audience thinks video game-based movies are always horror movies but it's totally not true. In video games you have adventure, sci-fi, horror, action and even comedy. I think that people should accept more that video games are kind of like the best-selling books of the new generation.”

People Thinking Kind Book Action Accepting Audience Comedy Adventure Horror

Author:Uwe Boll

“A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.”

Wells Kind Littles Character Together Fans Horror Outsiders Collectors Syndromes Retarded Main Characters Rallying Horror Fans

Author:Kirk Hammett

“A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.”

People Way Feels Mind Moving Materials Disappointment Versions Inevitable

Author:Ben Gibbard

“A lot of the mathematics discoveries occur through lucky accidents like that, [Calabi notes]. It's often a matter of connecting up ideas that might seem unrelated and then exploiting the newfound connection.”

Learning Innovation Mathematics Discoveries Inventions Eugenio Calabi

Author:Shing-Tung Yau

Source: The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

“A lot of the medical imagery has to do with my own biography. I had open heart surgery, I had knee replacements, I had a hiatal hernia, etc. Every time you go for surgery, you get a whole spectrum of imaging. Of course, I've been doing research in imaging technology across the board for close to twenty years. When you think about it, medical imaging is actually quite new. The first major medical image was the x-ray in 1895. That was the first time you got imaging of anything that's in the bodily interior.”

Thinking Heart Technology First Time Medical Surgery Imagery Open Heart

Author:Don Ihde

“A lot of the men were upset or jealous of me because I got the girl. Men are always trying too hard. When I effortlessly get the girl, it pisses them off.”

Men Trying Hard Girl He Man Upset Jealous Always Trying Trying Too Hard Jealous Of Me

Author:Jackie Warner

“A lot of the moms of autistic kids I met are so consumed with being their child's advocate that there's no room for anything else - least of all themselves. It's why so many marriages end in divorce, when a child is diagnosed on the spectrum.”

Children Ends Kids Rooms Mom Mets Divorce Consumed Spectrum Autistic

Author:Jodi Picoult

Source: House Rules: A Novel

“A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.”

Plans Retirement

Author:Ron Chernow

“A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'”

Motivation Laughing Scene Shapes Training Finished Shooting Ems Zero Gravity Inception Snl Zero Gravity

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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