I Quotes
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“It’s also true that I might have never made Taxi Driver [1976] were it not for the success of Alice [Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 1974]. The question of commercialism is a source of worry. Must one make a choice, must it be a matter of either setting your sights on winning an Academy Award and becoming a millionaire, or making only the movies you want to make and starving to death?”
“It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.”
“It’s always about, somehow, finding a part of myself that is relevant, and then turning the volume up on that particular part. So, I am all of the characters I've ever played, and I am none of them at the same time.”
“It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.”
“It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.”
“It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.”
“It’s always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.”
“It’s always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.”
“It’s always more intriguing to imagine what’s happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.”
“It’s always summer somewhere.”
“It’s always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn’t think he already is.”
“It’s always this thing where we’re constantly waiting for something that will come in electronic music that says, ‘Daft Punk sucks!’ That’s actually much more interesting and exciting than someone who is paying homage.”
“It’s amazing how a bed feels more like a home than any other part of a house.”
“It’s amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself.”
“It’s amazing how lonely you can feel and like nobody understands…The moment you are vulnerable, someone always reaches out….They go through the same things. I want them to feel comfortable knowing that I have flaws as wells. I want them to know those flaws. I’m afraid of the pedestal…I want to be a peer to my fans”
“It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.”
Source: The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…
“It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.”
Source: Too busy not to pray
“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.”
Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays
“It’s amazing how much you’re missing in a depressive state until you start to come out on the other side. It’s like breathing again after being underwater for far too long.”
“It’s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. I’ve stopped in Macy’s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change.”
Source: Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews
“It’s amazing how things could change so quickly, in the blink of an eye. Maybe more miracles awaited on the horizon.”
“It’s amazing that people don’t understand that the more the market is involved and the smaller the government, the lower the price, the better the distribution, and the higher the quality.”
“It’s amazing what a healing effect horses can have on kids, particularly troubled kids, that might bridge the gap that a well-intended human just can’t do.”
“It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.”
Source: Reading myself and others
“It’s amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing.”
“It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.”
“It’s an amazing bond with your child. Some cultures do it up to five years, normally. I thought, 'Well, I’ll just do it as long as it feels right for my son.'”
“It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.”
Source: Fragile Things
“It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be alive.”
“It’s an incredible honor to be recognized by St. Jude, especially on a special year like its 50th anniversary. I feel passionate about my music, but even more passionate about children and giving them the opportunity to live a healthy and happy life.”
“It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.”
“It’s an interesting sign of the times that models are being booked for jobs and covers because of their following on a social media platform, I walked in the Balmain show for Olivier Rousteing. If you rounded up all the numbers of the majority of his line-up, there would be upwards of 10, 15 million followers.”
“It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there - with your eyes open - and lived to see it.”
“It’s an odd term, 'girlfriend,' particularly for grown persons. And in practice it provides an even odder concept. Generally speaking, in adults it described a woman, not a girl, who was willing to provide sex, not friendship. In fact, from what I had observed it was quite possible for one to actively dislike one’s girlfriend, although of course true hatred is reserved for marriage.”
Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter
“It’s an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.”
Source: The Changeling Sea
“It’s an old Orc axe, which means he’s been in battle. Orcs have killed members of his family, and he’s trying to find the Orc that did it to him so that he can give it back. But as the journey goes on, Bifur actually becomes more lucid. He becomes a bit more focused, and the journey is a bit healing for him.”
“It’s as easy as we choose to make it,” he murmured, pressing his forehead to mine. “At least, this decision is. Nothing’s truly easy, Georgina. Love and life . . . they’re wonderful, but they’re hard. We may mess up again. We have to be strong and decide if we can still go forward, even when things aren’t perfect.”
Source: Succubus Revealed
“It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.”
“it’s as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it’s impossible not to lead a spiritual life… the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact.”
“It’s as if your kind needs adversity in order to achieve. (Leta) No, we don’t. That’s just a lie people tell themselves to feel better about all the people who kick them in their teeth when it’s just as easy to help a man up as it is to knock him to the ground. That’s why I’ve withdrawn from this world. I don’t want to have to watch my back all the time and I’m tired of trying to figure out if the loyalty someone professes is real and true, or just another lie that will crumble the instant they taste jealousy. (Aiden)”
“It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.”
“It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”
Source: Every Day
“It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God.”
“it’s awful. No privacy, no secrets. Everything you’re ashamed of, laid out for everyone to see.”
Source: Eclipse
“It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.”
“It’s because I’m so good-looking, isn’t it?”
“It’s because your subconscious finds my subconscious irresistible.”
Source: Love Irresistibly
“It’s becoming obvious to most that mainstream media is nothing but a megaphone for the global elite to present biased news that’s designed to align the masses with their agenda.”
“It’s been a dream to work with Netflix because they don’t have any pressure from advertisers.”
“It’s been a full week since she left and all you’ve done is sulk like a dying cow. (Kish)”
Source: Devil May Cry