T Quotes
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“That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.”
“That's what music should be like all the time. No stress, moving things forward, inspiring the youth, and doing it with style and vigor.”
“That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.”
Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
“That's what my life is, writing songs.”
“That's what my mother doesn't understand about my lipstick and dark clothes. I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me.”
“That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.”
“That's what my perfume would smell like, margarita and vodka.”
“That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.”
“That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time”
“That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.”
Source: Engleby: A Novel
“That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.”
“That's what our training is for, we practice not panicking, we practice breathing, we practice looking directly at the thing that scares us until we stop flinching, we practice overriding our Can't.”
“That's what our work can do: we remind people that things can change, that wounds can heal, that people can be forgiven, and that closed hearts can open again.”
Source: The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor
“That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.”
Source: Carl Hiaasen Collection: Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp
“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”
Source: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
“That's what people do. Kill the things they're afraid of.”
“That's what people need to remember about reviewers; opinions can be all over the spectrum, and you just need to find a reviewer whose tastes match your own.”
“That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.”
“That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a doubt that this is not true, that is it nowhere near the truth.”
“That's what perfect means. You're finished.”
“That's what perseverance is. You go through some tough times and you fight through it. And now, it's over. It's over.”
“That's what poems are for,
unlivable love.”
Source: Dear Ghosts,: Poems
“That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.”
“That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.”
“That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”
“That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.”
“That's what really seems to be the more difficult aspect - to have the men break through and challenge the best players in the world.”
“That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.”
“That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.”
“That's what running does to lives. It's not just exercise. It's not just achievement. It's a daily discipline that has nothing to do with speed, weight, social status, sexual orientation, political affiliation, where you live, what car you drive, or whether anyone anywhere loves you. It's about the slow and painful process of being the best you can be.”
Source: To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)
“That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.”
“That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."”
“That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed to be and do to a set of rules so you can defy them, or so you can perform them and feel smug.”
“That's what separates out American democracy from dictators and horrible governments across the world and the reason why that works is that we have a president that can consult with congress before making big decisions. That doesn't just make a unilateral decision to go in for military conflict.”
“That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.”
“That's what she [Hillary Clinton] is done with everything all her life. She just makes something good happen, and that's what you need.”
“That's what she said.”
“That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.”
“That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job.”
“That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.”
Source: Hidden Empire
“That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.”
“That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.”
“That's what sometimes separates people who always run and always train and people who maybe move on in life and do something else. I think I'm a lot more likely to be someone like Joan Benoit (Samuelson), who keeps going forever, just because I actually really like it, as opposed to someone who stops and never runs again.”
“That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.”
Source: Let the Great World Spin: A Novel
“That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!”
“That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.”
“That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.”
Source: What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World
“That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.”
Source: The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen
“That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.”
“That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands) are doing: protecting the remaining wild environment. This is the equivalent of getting a patient to the emergency room - keep them alive and then figure out how to save them.”