I Quotes
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“It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?”
“It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.”
“It was interesting to have both very a conservative and very liberal parent, because we deal with both these elements in the world and we have both elements within ourselves.”
“It was interesting to have humanoid villains that were rooted in our three-dimensional reality... or four dimensional reality, I'm not sure which!”
“It was interesting to portray a character that was so far removed from today's world, but was also at the forefront of feminism at that time.”
“It was interesting to watch President Obama launch the Desoto Solar Farm. After the public launch, he disappeared into a private area with the senior company managers.”
“It was interesting to watch the Lahaina disaster victims getting an education on how their government really is!”
“It was interesting watching the Afghanistan war review deliberations, this three-month process where Barack Obama did the most thorough foreign policy review ever by a modern American president. Compare that to Libya. For a month he said we weren't going to do anything, then suddenly changed his mind and did it on the fly. My view is that it's not how long or quick you take to make a decision, it's whether you make the right one.”
“It was interesting, when the Affordable Care Act passed, Arizona did it immediately, even though they had two Republican senators, a Republican governor, Republican legislature.”
“It was interesting; it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a job, I think I'd have to get paid extra.”
“It was intimate . . . a strange and beautiful feeling. We were breathing life into each other.”
Source: Love and Other Sins
“It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.”
“It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.”
Source: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
“It was invaluable to have a dear friend who you have known for over a decade, be a partner in a film like Titanic. To have somebody that talented to work against, who's also your friend and who you know you have the best intentions for and vice versa, and who you intrinsically trust to give you their forthright honest opinion about what we're both doing - all that's something you can't really buy.”
“It was involuntary. They sank my boat.”
“It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist regime itself. No-one believed more than Father Gapon in the bond between Tsar and people.”
Source: A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution
“It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.”
Source: Halo
“It was ironic really that she was willingly, like a lamb to slaughter, going to her Commencement, readily taking the Crown that would prove to be her curse.”
Source: Cursed By The Crown
“It was ironic, really, that the only reason I became eligible to adjust my status was because I married a U.S. citizen. I laugh when I think about the many times my mom told me, 'You have to be independent. You have to make your own money. Don't depend on a man!' I did. I made my own money. But I still needed a man to save me from my illegality.”
Source: You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
“It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often involving visits to hardware shops.
And if you've managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work.”
Source: Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married
“It was ironic that one of the greatest experiences of my life came out of one of the worst experiences.”
“It was ironic that there I was finally painting the pictures I'd always wanted to paint and feeling very much at home in the countryside, and I ended up working in New York City, which is definitely the archetypal city.”
“It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.”
“It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she’d captivated him.”
“It was irrelevant how much time you spent with Madiba. Your relationship with him depended on how you felt about him in you heart.”
“It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.”
“It was Jack Frost!”
“It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.”
“It was Jaenelle's voice, but...
She was medium height, slender, and fair-skinned. Her gold mane--not quite hair and not quite fur--was brushed up and back from her exotic face and didn't hide the delicately pointed ears. In the center of her forehead was a tiny, spiral horn. A narrow strip of gold fur traced her spine, ending in a small gold and white fawn tail that flicked over her bare buttocks. The legs were human and shapely, but changed below the calf. Instead of feet, she had dainty horse's hooves. Her human hands had sheathed claws like a cat's. As she shifted position to slip another shard into place, he saw the small, round breasts, the feminine curve of waist and hips, the dark-gold triangle of hair between her legs.
Who...?
But he knew. Even before she walked over and looked at him, even before he saw the feral intelligence in those ancient, haunted sapphire eyes, he knew.
Terrifying and beautiful. Human and Other. Gentle and violent. Innocent and wise.
*I am Witch,* she said, a small, defiant quiver in her voice.
*I know.* His voice had a seductive throb in it, a hunger he couldn't control or mask.”
“It was jealousy. Jealousy based on imagination...”
Source: The Face of Another
“It was jealousy that was at the bottom of it - jealousy which survives every other passion of mankind...”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“It was, Jess suspected, the common preserve of all true readers. This was the magic of books, the curious alchemy that allowed a human mind to turn black ink on white pages into a whole other world”
Source: Homecoming
“It was Jesse. Again. He came by every day and yelled up to my window. I never answered. Tonight my light was on, so he knew I was there. He continued to yell, "Hey, Motor City," louder and louder alternating between high voices, low voices, even singing it.
"Shut up!" someone called from a nearby window.
"Get her to come down, and I'll shut up," he yelled back.”
Source: Out of The Easy
“It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.”
“It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter, mashed potatoes and gravy.”
“It was joy, joy, happy joy. Happy, happy joy. A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford.”
“It was Julia’s theory that if one cried in public, one would catch a cold. It wasn’t so much retribution for the display of emotion as it was the irritation of mucous membranes in the presence of foreign germs.”
“It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.”
“It was July, and we'd ordered patbingsu to share to stave off the humidity. This rendition was far more elaborate than the homespun efforts of my childhood, its base a perfect soft powder of snow slathered in sweet red beans and garnished with pristinely cut strawberries, perfect squares of ripe mango, and little cushions of multicolored rice cakes. A fine web of condensed milk drizzled over the sides, and vanilla soft serve towered high on top.”
Source: Crying in H Mart
“It was June 24th, 2004, a hot, but windy, day. Leaves on the trees whistled, and the wind blew things in the road.”
“It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.”
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
Source: Betsy-Tacy and Tib
“It was just 12 months ago that I was the one doing the chasing and looking for all the big names. I guess now I'm universally recognized as No. 1 in the division and they're all looking for me. To be in a position where I can pick my opponents, wow, that's a fighter's dream, really.”
“It was just a bad game. On the first goal, I just made a mistake and got scored on and it just snowballed from there. It happens sometimes. You don't want it, but it's the reality. I just have to refocus.”
“It was just a compulsion. In fact, I soon realized that the only thing I really enjoyed was the actual snorting.”
“It was just a different kind of battle, one he'd have to learn to win”
Source: The Exiled Queen
“It was just a game for you-your flames blazed brighter
And with my sizzling coals, I mistakenly thought I was the strong one-
You drew me in as easily as you put me out.”
Source: Simply Not Meant To Be: Maddy Kobar's 2014-2018 Poems
“It was just a kiss and it was nearly too much and it still wasn't enough, and it was just beautiful.”
Source: Every Last Breath
“It was just a kiss – " "Yeah, and King Kong was just a monkey.”
Source: Night Moves: Dream Man/After the Night
“It was just a lie that seemed real.
It was a promise that was never meant to be true.
The forever that had a deadline.
It felt like falling in love, but it was falling in a
heartbreak café!”
Source: How I Kissed Heartbreak Goodbye