I Quotes
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“It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.”
“It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.”
“It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.”
“It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.”
“It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural.”
Source: The Contortionist’s Handbook
“It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.”
“It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying, i could have a long conversation, an academic conversation about that. I don't know. I just feel like I didn't mislead anybody; I didn't deceive anybody.”
“It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.”
“It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue. Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part-- time and space and heart's weariness are the blander executioners or human connection.”
“It's taken years for people to figure out how to make good content with a gamepad, even though they've been using gamepads for decades to make traditional games.”
“It's taking our officers much longer to respond to an accident because they have to fight their way through all of the traffic just to get to the scene”
“It's tapping into something so deep that when I reap the rewards, I do not even know I'm reaping them. It's a more overall kinda thing.”
“It's tax day and while many Americans are filing their taxes with a groan, taxpayers in the Badger State have reason to cheer. In Wisconsin, we have enacted more than $2 billion in tax cuts, giving our citizens much-needed relief, call us crazy Midwesterners but we think you know how to spend your money better than the government.”
“It's tax season. When I woke this morning and realized it was tax season, I said, My God, didn't we just pay taxes last year?”
“It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.”
“It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.”
“It's television. The reality of it is, if you go on the boards and people are saying, "I saw that coming," or "This is lame," or "I can't believe they're doing this again..." Having been one of those people myself, I know better, and try to avoid it.”
“It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.”
Source: The Secret Lives of People in Love
“It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.”
“It's tempting to remember that the Tea Party had a peak and then the Republican Party establishment sort of beat it back down. And so these things are won in a day.”
“It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way”
“It's tempting to think that decisions that are not life-and-death are therefore unimportant, and that the little compromises we make don't matter to our bottom line or our spiritual selves. How many of us are tempted, in business, to make a less-than-ethical decision? To appropriate someone else's idea or fudge some numbers? We have to remember that maintaining our ethical and spiritual selves is absolutely linked with achieving the degree of success we're working toward.”
“It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.”
“It's terrible because people see stars like JLo and Beyoncé wearing fur and they don't think about the cruelty that goes into it.”
“It's terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you.”
“It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.”
“It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.”
“It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible”
Source: Light in August
“It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.”
Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter
“It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.”
“It's terrible to know that no matter how you try to help your child, his condition will worsen.”
“It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.”
Source: The Bean Trees: A Novel
“It's terrible to lose your brain and your power to be conscious or in the moment.”
“It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.”
Source: Gigolo
“It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but observably not.”
“It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.”
Source: The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
“It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.”
Source: ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO
“It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.”
Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
“It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed.”
“It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?”
“It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize I was barreling pell-mell down the road leading to disease, disability and premature destruction of the most precious thing I could ever be given-my own life.”
“It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror.”
“It's terrifying to have a voice right now. It's so terrifying, and it's so essential.”
“It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.”
“It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“It's terrifying to show incomplete footage.”
“It's terrifying to think about all things that were awful for you. But for me, sharing all of them was so satisfying, because people read them and get to go, "Oh, okay, I don't have to feel so shitty about that," or maybe even, "Why was I feeling so shitty about that? I should own that and learn from that." Those are the sorts of stories I want to tell.”
“It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from your body in your sleep. The darkness, those black sheets of glass sliding over you, upping the pressure, pushing you through the time and space and story.”
Source: In the Winter Dark
“It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.”
“It's terrifying. It's so scary, because you get used to being around the crew and being friendly with everyone and then suddenly, at a certain point, everything switches and you're the one standing behind the lights and nobody's going to help you. And that can be really difficult sometimes.”