I Quotes
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“I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.”
“I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.”
“I find Hollywood gives these pat stories, and they're reassuring stories, and I don't really want to give people that. Hollywood does all that work. I'm offering, sometimes, an alternative to that. The answers aren't black-and-white. There may not even be answers in certain instances. The ground is not necessarily solid, either. So you've got to keep awake the whole time, even after the movie is over.”
“I find Hollywood really toxic.”
“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”
“I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.”
“I find human behavior to be fascinating, which is probably why I'm an actor, and I think that there are a lot of dangerous misconceptions about mental illness in our society, and I would like to be a part of remedying that - particularly the stigma that surrounds so many mental illnesses.”
“I find human beings to be so complex and full of beauty. Creativity is our way to express and challenge and flow. So, all you humans, create and flow! Ill be over here thinking you are beautiful and creepy and freaky and wonderful!”
“I find human contact repulsive.”
“I find humans tremendously interesting”
“I find humming is very useful.”
“I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can't explain it.”
“I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.”
Source: The Dud Avocado
“I find I always throw limbs here and there in my lyrics. I kind of put my physical self into the songs.”
“I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“I find I am increasingly disinterested in what other people will allow me.”
Source: From Unseen Fire
“I find I am more interested in the villain-type roles because they can be so much more complex than just the villain. I don't think anybody sees them as evil per se. They show how close we are to one another. It's an untapped area of art. And I think, physically, I'm not going to play the hero.”
“I find I am most productive with at least six hours of sleep.”
“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”
Source: The Complete Essays
“I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.”
“I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.”
“I find I cannot exist without Poetry”
Source: The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets
“I find I do not belong here any more, it is a foreign world. Some of these people ask questions, some ask no questions, but no one can see that the latter are proud of themselves for their silence; they often say with a wise air that these things cannot be talked about.”
Source: All quiet on the western front
“I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking”
“I find I don't need to be polished. I feel that you have to keep it real, and that's the best way to go.”
“I find I enjoy myself most on those days when it's just me and a couple close friends away from it all. True human interaction in a day when we are all spread so thin.”
“I find I have much better drive and focus when in a state of ketosis. I have a lot more mental clarity and productivity.
Bryan Barksdale”
Source: Keto Clarity: Your Definitive Guide to the Benefits of a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet
“I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.”
“I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.”
“I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.”
“I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.”
“I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.”
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan
“I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.”
Source: Boswell, the great biographer, 1789-1795
“I find I like it too much.”
“I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there, and there is this unspoken trust, both ways. They trust me and I trust them. And I know what I'm going to get from them, to an extent. It's just fun, kind of creating this little family.”
“I find I'm unable to speak, unable to move, snared in his serious gaze like some kind of frightened rabbit”
Source: Promises and Other Broken Things
“I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to reach the circus. To visit the circus again, if only in their minds, when they are unable to attend it physically. I relay it through printed words on crumpled newsprint, words that they can read again and again, returning to the circus whenever they wish, regardless of time of day or physical location. Transporting them at will. When put that way, it sounds rather like magic, doesn't it? p.369”
“I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email.”
“I find I've been made sad by Minuteman dread. They take a fact and make the worst of it. This beautiful world, all this magnificence, seems to inspire in them only a fear that the beautiful world will be taken away.”
Source: The Braindead Megaphone
“I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“I find I want to kiss you, my lord, but I'm baffled by that, since I'm also angry with you at the same time.”
Source: Meet the Earl at Midnight
“I find I'm an old soul.”
“I find I'm luckier when I work harder.”
“I find I'm most challenged by things I really care about, because I really want to do them well. It causes quite a bit of anxiety. But that very thing you're afraid of is kind of like a blessing in disguise. If you didn't have that fear, you wouldn't have the other side - courage and bravery, positive emotions.As an actor, you get used to those fears, and you're almost happy when they show up. It makes you learn your lines and prepare.”
“I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.”
“I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day.”
“I find I've always been judgmental about comedy (laughs) and it's hard to turn that off, really. But what constant exposure to live comedy does is it makes you give people a second chance.”
“I find if I just sit down and think, a solution presents itself.”
“I find if you're targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else that you might try it later. Writing code that is cross-platform from the start requires more discipline, but I find it is worth the effort.”