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“A lot of the reasons why people are annoyed at found footage movies is because people look at it like it's easy and that they could do it, too.”

People Looks Reason Found Easy Reason Why Annoyed

Author:Jason Blum

“A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time.”

People Reason All Things Reason Why Where You Are Favorites Things

Author:Jeffrey Jones

“A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1′s and 0′s, this digital cloud floating in the ether, but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.”

Hands Records Clouds Albums Digital Floating Analog

Author:Dave Grohl

“A lot of the Republican rhetoric better than the Democrats'. But when they're in office, it's pretty much the same thing. It's serving their supporters, it's corporate welfare, it's cronyism which is so destructive, particularly to the disadvantaged.”

Republican Office Democrat Corporate Welfare Destructive Serving Rhetoric Supporter Disadvantaged Cronyism

Author:Charles Koch

“A lot of the roads, bridges, railways, and such are built through the use of forced labor, and that is causing the people great suffering. What we put into this in the form of human suffering is not worth what comes out of it.”

People Humans Use Form Suffering Built Labor Bridges Railway Human Suffering

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“A lot of the routes cornerbacks have to defend are quick underneath routes, so it's tougher to get a chance to track the ball on those.”

Chance Balls Track Routes

Author:Antonio Cromartie

“A lot of the Russian economy is built around people who are one way or another milking the state and taking money from the state and recycling it into their private bank accounts. And there are a lot of people who are taking advantage of that, so it's not just one person. It's a kind of web of people doing that, and that's how the system stays in power and how people stay in control.”

People Kind Economy Recycling Taking Advantage

Author:Anne Applebaum

“A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.”

Self Stories Home Understanding Prayer Shadow Shadow Self

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.”

Shows Mystery Theater

Author:Joel Hodgson

“A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn’t help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.”

Wisdom Wise Dog Stupid Ignorance Fool Consequence Cat Stupidity Foolish Ignorant Common Sense Dumb Cycles Repetition Consequences Naive Dogs Cats Repeat Naivete Yard

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A lot of the so-called systems composers have this thing that the system is always right. You don't fiddle with it at all. Well, I don't think that. I think the system is as right as you judge it to be. If for some reason you don't like a bit of it you must trust your intuition on that. I don't take a doctrinaire approach to systems.”

Thinking Reason Judging Intuition Composer Fiddle

Author:Brian Eno

“A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to "As Cool As I Am," it's not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.”

Ifs Stills Different Artist Song Folks Hearing Folk Music Woman Artist

Author:Dar Williams

“A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.”

Wells Done Song Written Involved Guitar Piano

Author:Caroline Corr

“A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I've never been able to find on any record, but that I've always wanted to hear. Or maybe in a style I already loved, but I was looking for something in it that I wasn't hearing yet.”

Writing Able Wanted Song Records Style Hearing

Author:Ryan Adams

“A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.”

Writing Song

Author:Joan Jett

“A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream.”

Dream Song Albums Ghost Grandmother Imaginary Rumor Visiting Imaginary Things

Author:Florence Welch

“A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.”

Kids Beautiful Song Behinds Car Sitting Window Hot Green Guitar Dirty Heat Wheels Texas Beautiful Women Naughty

Author:Edie Brickell

“A lot of the stars were actually in the military and they were really strong characters.”

Character Strong Stars Military Strong Character

Author:Kathy Garver

“A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.”

Giving Stories Attention Internals More Time Headlines Leaks

Author:Matt Drudge

“A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there aren't armies and police and various ways to punish deviants, but there isn't any way to punish a large number of deviants. It's too expensive to even try. So, the solution is to colonize the minds of children as they're growing up, so that they become their own police, and to report on others who are deviating.”

Way Trying Mind Children Numbers Growing Up Growing Solutions Army Police Various Invention Expensive Reports Strings Puppets Large Numbers Deviants

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.”

Moments Stories Feelings Together Actors Struggle Scene Creating Tone Movie Strings

Author:Louis C. K.

“A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.”

Stuff Seeing Materials Edgy

Author:Mickey Rourke

“A lot of the stuff I have done had been not only the likable guy, but like the nice likable guy.”

Done Guy Stuff Nice Nice Day

Author:Ron Livingston

“A lot of the stuff I listen to is glitchy electronic stuff and stuff with beats.”

Stuff Beats

Author:Mark Linkous

“A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.”

Want Years Lasts Stuff Sound Interesting Beats Rap Bites Touring Really Interesting Sound Bites Good Dance

Author:Kid Koala

“A lot of the stuff I've done is inspired by the location. Usually my works are pretty site-specific. There are a lot of shows that are older works, but often when I do new work for a show, it tends to talk to the space or the idea of the museum.”

Ideas Done Shows Stuff Space Inspired Museums Site Location New Work

Author:Ragnar Kjartansson

“A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.”

Way Done Stuff Focus Color Infinite Cameras Speed Backgrounds Tone Digital Realism Experimentation Retro Racers Digital Cameras Speed Racer

Author:Emile Hirsch

“A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.”

Said Stuff

Author:Margaret Atwood

“A lot of the stuff that I say doesn't even make TV because it gets cut out. So if you're at the live events you get to hear what I have to say, but if you're watching on TV, you're only getting about 50% of it.”

Ifs Stuff Cutting Events Tvs

Author:John Cena

“A lot of the stuff that I see, because it's part of the work that I do, is look at pictures and photographs and sculpture and all the rest of that. I also spend a lot of time looking at the people on my street, and all of it simply exists in sort of this tremendous forceful wash of reality out of which comes, what I hope, are these shapely recognitions of reality, which are my poems.”

People Reality Photograph Recognition

Author:W. S. Di Piero

“A lot of the stuff that my father told me not to do, I did it anyway and I ended up learning the hard way.”

Way Hard Father Stuff Hard Way Learning The Hard Way

Author:Lil' Kim

“A lot of the stuff that we say about drugs is just wrong.”

Stuff Drug

Author:Maia Szalavitz

“A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.”

Wells Important Stories Funny Focus Written Caught Clever Caught Up Tabloids Very Clever

Author:Calista Flockhart

“A lot of the teachings really kind of keep me grounded.”

Kind Teaching Grounded

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“A lot of the techniques are similar in MMA. You just have to look at your opponent and their technique and tweak your game plan a little bit.”

Looks Littles Games Bits Plans Little Bit Technique Opponents Mma Tweak Game Plan

Author:Dan Henderson

“A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.”

Knows Stories Shows Easy Watches Week Television Industry Tunes Where You Are Cookies Arcs Bland Cutters Cookie Cutters Television Industry

Author:Adam Baldwin

“A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.”

Stories Movie Theme Tabloids

Author:Errol Morris

“A lot of the things I did - it's not going to sound anything but egotistical - if I'm lucky and I did the right thing, they will be at Zara way before I can get them in the store, and I don't like that.”

Ifs Way I Can Sound Lucky Stores Right Thing Egotistical Zara

Author:Tom Ford

“A lot of the things I do are the sort of things I think are funny.”

Thinking

Author:Eugene Mirman

“A lot of the things I find funniest about people are their shortcomings that they're oblivious to, but that they're constantly reminding everyone around them of.”

People Shortcomings Reminding Oblivious

Author:Emile Hirsch

“A lot of the things I say I'm just trying to be funny... I don't really mean everything I say, because I'm not totally that airhead.”

Trying Mean Really Mean Airheads

Author:Paris Hilton

“A lot of the things I was doing on YouTube nobody was doing at the time, and now everybody is doing them, and I think making movies - I know a few Youtubers have done it, and hopefully this movie does well and more YouTubers want to take a risk and make movies, and I'm excited about it.”

Thinking Knows Want Wells Doe Done Risk Excited Hopefully Youtube

Author:Shane Dawson

“A lot of the things I've done for charity and the money I've given will never be talked about in the media. I'd rather it be that way, because I don't do it for the media. Of course, having celebrities and media there at events helps bring attention to the need, but seeing the looks on peoples' faces when they receive help is why I really do it.”

Way Needs Looks Done Helping Faces Courses Given Attention Seeing Media Events Charity

Author:Shawne Merriman

“A lot of the things I've enjoyed the most and that I think have been the best are ensembles.”

Thinking Has Beens Enjoyed Ensemble

Author:David Morse

“A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.”

Goes On

Author:Rakim

“A lot of the things that I like to portray on television are otherwise my real views.”

Real Views Television

Author:Bray Wyatt

“A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can be very passive aggressive or they can be aggressive and they can conceal their intentions. There's this world that exists that nobody writes about or describes it's like a dirty little secret or taboo.”

People World Writing Humans Littles Sometimes Sides Levels Secret Psychology This World Highest Intention Dirty Aggressive Passive Taboo Passive Aggressive Darker Side

Author:Robert Greene

“A lot of the things that I’ve learned in the past have been from dear friends. Rodriguez’s favorite line is “Fácil!” Easy! He makes things easy. He doesn’t complicate his life. He’s obsessed with perfection, but he makes it easy, and that’s pretty much the way I work as an actor.”

Way Has Beens Past Actors Easy Lines Perfection Dear Obsessed I've Learned Dear Friend

Author:Demian Bichir

“A lot of the things that other people from outside the business would see as crazy or strange are just a natural part of the working process. Preparation is key, and detail and collaboration are the rule, but no matter how many hours you spend preparing, there's always something.”

People Matter Process Hours Natural Crazy Strange Keys Details Preparation Collaboration Preparing

Author:Russell Crowe

“A lot of the things that seem to be coming out now [in 2016] could have been written just maybe three years ago by the Gang of Eight or by Jeb Bush.”

Years Has Beens Seems Three Written Years Ago Eight Coming Out Three Years Gang Could Have Been

Author:Jose Diaz-Balart

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