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“One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusiastic.”

Unique Hollywood Meetings Enthusiastic

Author:Mark Leyner

“One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.”

Poverty Discovering American Poverty

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“One of the things that surprised me the most is how often we assume that because something's fun for someone else, it makes somebody else happy, it will make us happy.”

Fun Assuming

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“One of the things that the Affordable Care Act has done, which is advantageous to consumers, is created marketplaces, where people can go online and comparison-shop. That was very hard to do before the Affordable Care Act, especially for people who had individual insurance policies.”

People Hard Done Care Individual Policy Consumers Shops Comparison Online Marketplace Affordable Affordable Care Act Insurance Policy

Author:David Blumenthal

“One of the things that the Hillary Clinton campaign has done, I think all the mayors in America would agree, is have a detailed plan about how that money actually gets down to the ground fast.”

Thinking Done Agree Clinton

Author:Mitch Landrieu

“One of the things that troubles me the most in life, that upsets all of us, is that we reach this world with the capability to be anything. But then life starts to confine us inside our small realities. And then, the shadow of those other possible lives stays to lurk us and you can't shake it off, since it was so easy, it'd have been so easy to lead another life. We make twenty thousand small choices a day, and maybe one of those choices is the one that will take us to a completely different life. If you stop to think about it, it is vertiginous, hypnotizing and distressing.”

Thinking World Different Reality Choices Easy Trouble Shadow Upset Capability

Author:Rosa Montero

“One of the things that turns me on the most is imagining new worlds, just as I did as a kid, when I listened to fairy stories and imagined what they looked like and what those worlds were like.”

World Stories Kids Turns Fairy New World Turn Me Fairy Stories

Author:Nick Willing

“One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.”

Thinking War Political Mathematics Nuclear Political Science Nuclear War

Author:Paul Wolfowitz

“One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.”

Criticism Agree Upset Exception

Author:Paul Simon

“One of the things that vexes me to the point of near insanity is understanding the message of Christmas and realizing the potency of this message to transform the worst of our lives so that we can become the best of our ourselves, to shift the momentum of entire cultures so that the world is brilliantly enriched by each instead of destroyed by all, and to handily touch the hem of history itself so that history is changed in the touching. And while all of these are ours for the taking, I continue to watch the mindless hoards trudge past these things in order to embrace everything that is not the ‘everything’ of these gifts. And so I pray that God would grant them a heart ready to be captured by the ‘everything’ of Christmas.”

God Jesus Prayer Salvation Christmas Gift Redemption Holidays Message

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“One of the things that voters have said about Donald Trump, since he has no government experience, is that he will be able to surround himself with good advisers.”

Surround

Author:John S. Dickerson

“One of the things that was confusing about Limp Bizkit to some people is that our tastes were very different.”

People Different Taste Confusing Limp Bizkit

Author:Fred Durst

“One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.”

Ideas Player Life And Living Guitar Crucial Guitar Player Gallagher

Author:Rory Gallagher

“One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.”

Humans Kind May Facts Universe Term Hey Shocking Center Of The Universe

Author:Kevin J. Anderson

“One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.”

Want States Reason Wanted Issues Particular Chosen Secretary

Author:Madeleine Albright

“One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years. It's epic. I had a great deal of difficulty understanding it. One of the problems was you'd be reading along in English and he would move to a Chinese ideogram or French-he actually used seven different languages in a given poem. And for somebody who's not fluent in different languages it has the impact of rupturing your way of understanding something.”

Way Years Different Problem Moving Used Reading Language Given Understanding Deals Photography Difficulty Impact Seven Chinese Pounds Epic Influential Different Languages Fluent

Author:Richard Misrach

“One of the things that we admire about porcelain is its delicate fragility. We should learn to appreciate the same in people.”

Sensitive Thoughtful Delicate Sensitivity Delicacy Porcelain

Author:Andrew Davenport

“One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and it will reduce the cost of rockets.”

Air Materials Confidence Cost Stronger Flight Rockets Lighters

Author:Ralph Merkle

“One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country.”

Want Country Iraq Infrastructure

Author:Tom Brokaw

“One of the things that we have to change in this country is the idea that people can't disagree without challenging each other's character and patriotism. I have never suggested that Sen. McCain picks his positions on national security based on politics or personal ambition. I have not suggested it because I believe that he genuinely wants to serve America's national interest. Now, it's time for him to acknowledge that I want to do the same. Let me be clear: I will let no one question my love of this country.”

“One of the things that we love most about our comedy [ American Reunion] is that it goes all-out.”

Comedy Reunion

Author:Jon Hurwitz

“One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we're in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment.”

Might Situation Teacher Models Empowerment Twirling

Author:Bell Hooks

“One of the things that we need to do immediately is try to move our self away from petroleum-based or fuels from carbon-based fueling of this country, and, you know, we started doing that here in Iowa and we've been very successful with developing our alternative energy programs.”

Trying Country Moving Energy Successful Program Alternative Energy

Author:Patty Judge

“One of the things that we talked about was this idea of 'Memento Mori' - like the reminder of our own mortality - and so we were sort of trying to express that in our press photos. And it's one of the themes of the album [Modern Vampires of the City] as well.”

Trying Wells Ideas Cities Modern Presses Albums Vampire Theme Mortality Reminders Memento Mori Memento

Author:Rostam Batmanglij

“One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.”

Trying Shows Passion Quality And Love Longing Complexity Parts Of Life Bittersweet

Author:Tim Burton

“One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.”

Thinking Years Values Courses Difficult Quality Struggle Impossible Judging Educational

Author:Roy Romer

“One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as newspapers are alive is the myth that newspapermen are breezy and raffish. What other play has for so long fed the self-image of journalists?”

Long Self Play Alive Fronts Pages Myth Newspapers Burning Journalist Feds Breezy Burning Bright

Author:Jay Carr

“One of the things that will never get explained in the films is how Ben was able to retain his identity, because it happened somewhere between the third and fourth movies. I set up that this is a discipline that he learned from Yoda; Yoda told him how to do that.”

Able Film Happened Identity Discipline Thirds Fourth

Author:George Lucas

“One of the things that will probably need to be addressed is in the treatment of history, i.e. the Presidential Papers Act. If they can act with impunity, if they know that what they're doing is not going to see the light of day anytime in their lifetime, if they have the right to withhold information from the public, then presidents are given a vastly freer hand.”

Ifs Knows Needs Hands Light Given President Information Paper Lifetime Presidential Treatment Papers Impunity

Author:Ted Gup

“One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time and I wouldn't want to be known for that.”

Want Character Known Steers

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“One of the things that writers worry about is finding a voice. I don't think it's a thing that you find so much as it is something that comes to you, or that presents itself.”

Thinking Voice Worry Findings

Author:Ayana Mathis

“One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.”

People Writing Real Sometimes Views Fiction Taught Window Loved Ones Bedroom

Author:Joanne Harris

“One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.”

People Thinking Today

Author:Peter Bogdanovich

“One of the things that you come pretty early on to understand in this job, and you start figuring out even during the course of the campaign, is that there's Barack Obama the person and there's Barack Obama the symbol, or the office holder, or what people are seeing on television, or just a representative of power. And so when people criticize or respond negatively to me, usually they're responding to this character that they're seeing on TV called Barack Obama, or to the office of the presidency and the White House and what that represents.”

People Persons Character Jobs Courses House White Seeing Television Tvs Office Campaigns Symbols Barack Criticize White House Representatives Presidency Responding

Author:Barack Obama

“One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.”

Years Littles Done President Opinion Four Office Four Years Public Opinion Adages Abraham

Author:Barack Obama

“One of the things that you never realise while you are young is that things do come to an end.”

Ends Young Realising

Author:George Ogilvie

“One of the things that you see ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree on is that strong relationships are a key to happiness, maybe the key to happiness. People who have more strong relationships in their lives just feel happier.”

People Feels Strong Keys Scientist Agree Ancient Philosopher Contemporary Key To Happiness Strong Relationship

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we have now seen, and which are widely regarded as unappealing. They'll write, "It's going to be beautiful, we're going to have a town of 1,000 stone buildings that are all identical." And we as modern readers think, we've seen that; that's bad Soviet architecture or a public housing project. Nobody fantasizes about living there.”

Thinking Writing Beautiful Reading Modern Building Reader Projects Stones Towns Folks Architecture Soviet Housing Identical Public Housing

Author:Christine Jennings

“One of the things that's attractive about cyberspace is that it can be construed as no threat. If you see it through the video game keyhole, the amusement keyhole, the entertainment keyhole, it is no threat. If you see it through the LSD keyhole, the consciousness-expanding keyhole, it's like electronic drugs: it is a threat.”

Ifs Games Consciousness Drug Threat Entertainment Video Attractive Expanding Amusement Lsd Cyberspace Keyholes Consciousness Expanding

Author:Jerry Garcia

“One of the things that's awesome about being an actor is that you get to do stories, live lives and have experiences that you never could have even conceived of, and that's because you're living in another writer's imagination and another director's imagination.”

Stories Actors Imagination Directors Live Life

Author:Brit Marling

“One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.”

People Wells Important Together Beautiful Simple Rich Diversity Weakness Notion Focused New Orleans Gumbo

Author:Mitch Landrieu

“One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.”

Community Audience Successful Clear Musician Jazz Interviews Halloween Jazz Music Jazz Musician Above And Beyond

Author:Branford Marsalis

“One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.”

World Writing Courses Letting Go Complicated Narcissism Sail

Author:Bill Ayers

“One of the things that's crucial to me about love is that it has to be in the moment.”

Moments Love Is Crucial

Author:Todd May

“One of the things that's different about London and the English market is that theater and film and television are all based in London. It's not quite the same as in the States where if the playwright here wants a successful TV or film career, they're whisked away by Hollywood.”

Ifs Want Different States Film Careers Successful Television Tvs Hollywood Theater London Playwright Film And Television

Author:Colin Callender

“One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.”

Film Values Pay Television Particular Driving Dropping Dvds

Author:Lorenzo di Bonaventura

“One of the things that's exciting for me about this novel is that, to me, Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron were both, in certain regards, crypto-steampunk. They're both books that are interested in an alternate technological past that in fact didn't historically come to pass. If you were to ask me what my novels were about, I would say, well, these are novels about technology and how we relate to technology and what technology means.”

Ifs Wells Mean Book Facts Past Certain Asks Technology Novel Exciting Regard Relate Ask Me Technological Testament Steampunk

Author:Emily Barton

“One of the things that's fascinating about making movies is a movie when it's done and you start showing it to people, it reveals its impact, which is often times not what you thought.”

People Done Impact Fascinating

Author:Peter Berg

“One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous.”

Knows Sometimes Fun Grows Growing Up Knowing

Author:Matt Ross

“One of the things that's funniest about the entertainment industry and comedy is that people go 'Oh, you're great, but I don't know what to do with you.' The great thing about the Internet is that nobody has to figure out what to do with you. You can figure out what to do with you, and you can say, 'I made this thing, and I'm going to put it out, and now if people want to come see me and buy things from me they can.'”

People Ifs Knows Want Made Comedy Figures Industry Internet Entertainment Great Things Entertainment Industry

Author:Eugene Mirman

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