I Quotes
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“It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.”
“It's the way we sing that makes 'em dream.”
“It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.”
“It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.”
Source: Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie
“It's the way you ride the trail that counts.”
Source: Happy Trails: Our Life Story
“It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
“It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.”
“It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.”
“It's the weirdest thing. Evan [Goldberg] was just telling me how weird it is that we won't be working on Sausage Party, to which I said, "Hopefully, we'll be working on Sausage Party 2." It was almost ten years ago when we came up with the idea.”
“It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized. It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to. In L.A., I'm just another character actor.”
“It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concerts and tell people to spit on me. I'm saying to them 'You are no different from me'.”
“It's the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings… And because the mechanisms of governance can no longer control them, there is nothing now within the formal mechanisms of power to stop them from the creating, essentially, a corporate oligarchic state.”
“It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.”
“It's the woman you should remember, not the dress, ever.”
“It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.”
“It's the world without sunlight, but I haven't seen sunlight in so long, I don't remember it.”
“It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You.'”
“It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.”
Source: By Nightfall: A Novel
“It's the worst feeling when you come home alone late at night and think the stranger sitting on your couch is a pile of clothes.”
“It's the worst form of torture a person can imagine-the wait to die.”
“It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.”
“It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.”
Source: The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more
“It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.”
Source: The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1
“It's the worst thing if you're sitting there in the theater, going, "Oh, that's the guy who dates this person and likes to do this in the morning and that in the afternoon." Then you're just watching a brand, as opposed to an actor.”
“It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you.”
“It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.”
Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
“It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.”
“It's the writing that teaches you.”
“It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease”
“It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness.”
Source: White Oleander
“It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.”
“It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would.”
“It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.”
“It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.”
“It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snows greenhouse. I grab the vase, stumble down to the kitchen, and throw its contents into the embers. As the flowers flare up, a burst of blue flame envelops the rose and devours it. Fire beats roses again.”
“It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters.”
“It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.”
Source: The Quiet Girl
“It's this amazing combination to play, really, of somebody who's actually very fragile and hasn't really grown up properly yet - at least in a healthy environment - and has suffered immense loss with her dad - like that line where she says, [in the words of her father [King George VI], "Yes, 'Elizabeth is my pride but Margaret's my joy." She holds onto it!”
“It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made of neurons. It's made of lots of tiny robots. And we can actually explain the structure and operation of that kind of soul, whereas an eternal, immortal, immaterial soul is just a metaphysical rug under which you sweep your embarrassment for not having any explanation.”
“It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.”
“It's this kind of wild unpredictability, megalomania, thin-skinned craziness that really has me worried, more than [Donald Trump] statements. Now, on the climate change there's just nothing to say, he's perfectly straightforward.”
“It's this long monologue [in Valley of Violence] with Ethan Hawke talking about life and everything with a dog. That's not in movies. Hopefully when people think about the movie when they go home, they're like, "That's weird. He's maybe crazy. He's talking to a dog the whole time."”
“It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.”
“It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.”
Source: Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
“It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.”
Source: The province of the heart
“It's this patronizing thing that people have about if you're against the war everyone's lumped together. You know, the soldiers are not scholars, they're not war experts.”
“It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.”
“It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.”
Source: Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions