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“There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.”

Certain Social Grace Genius Mere Patterns Communicate Mortals Inability Eccentricity Mere Mortals Social Graces

Author:John Noble

“There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.”

Certain Involved Moved Jazz

Author:Jan Garbarek

“There's a certain place you want to get to, and in order to do that, you have to be vulnerable.”

Want Certain Order Vulnerable

Author:Rene Marie

“There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to be suspicious of ideas and suspicious of your own mind at the same time. It's often a matter of orchestration and pacing. Of shaping some kind of dialectic flow.”

Mind Kind Pleasure

Author:Stephen Dunn

“There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.”

People World Mind Ideas Certain Pleasure Denied Playfulness

Author:Cornel West

“There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.”

Want Writing Would Be Certain Stuff

Author:Mark Strand

“There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.”

Sometimes Certain Possessiveness

Author:William Devane

“There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought in the lyrics and to have songs that were about stuff - to try to make things more coherent.”

Trying Ideas Certain Song Language Stuff Vague Discrete

Author:David Longstreth

“There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to a pinpoint, and when the juices are flowing, that's incredibly exciting. When you've managed to fit a complex set of actions or a complicated emotional passage into a single page there's the sense of satisfaction that I suspect a sculptor gets from chipping away at a piece of stone and ending up with a fully-realized work of art.”

Mind Art Use Action Certain Focus Pieces Emotional Fit Pages Advantage Stones Exciting Pressure Complexes Satisfaction Complicated Suspects Works Of Art Passages Juice Sculptors Chipping Away

Author:James Vance

“There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.”

Able Joy Certain Speak Gone Comedy Havens Like You Goes On Drama Dancing Depth Rhythm Enjoyable Autopilot

Author:James Wolk

“There's a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we'll continue.”

Certain Space Majors Factors Exploration Romanticism

Author:John McCain

“There's a certain satisfaction in a little bit of pain.”

Littles Pain Certain Bits Little Bit Satisfaction

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the wrinkles and convolutions of your brain. All I want them to do is to see the effect.”

Ifs Want Certain Actors Secret Brain Audience Effects Theatre Wrinkles

Author:Frank Langella

“There's a certain sense of ownership that the fans have over you....The thing is, it's all good. You just have to get used to it. If somebody comes up to you while you're eating dinner or something, it's kind of like, 'Well, I asked for it.' It's much better than the alternative-nobody caring and nobody buying your music. The point is to try to just realize that these people are really excited, and that's a good thing. You want them to be that way.”

People Ifs Way Want Trying Wells Kind Used Certain Realizing Fans Eating Good Things Come Up Excited Caring Dinner Alternatives Performing Buying Over You Ownership Up To You Eating Dinner

Author:Carrie Underwood

“There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.”

Light Certain Weight Winter Tunes Afternoon Cathedrals

Author:Emily Dickinson

Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“There's a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoons— That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes— Heavenly Hurt, it gives us— We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are.... When it comes, the Landscape listens— Shadows—hold their breath— When it goes, 'tis like the Distance On the look of Death.”

Giving Looks Light Certain Differences Hurt Shadow Breaths Distance Winter Landscape Tunes Internals Heavenly Afternoon Scar Cathedrals

Author:Emily Dickinson

“There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.”

Ifs Certain Term Rocks Genius Standards Ice Application Classical Music Treading

Author:Jimmy Page

“There's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently.”

Ifs Persons Happens Certain Suffering Sitting Tables Things Happen Horrible Ireland Sitting Around Horrible Things Sitting Around A Table

Author:Michael Lewis

“There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.”

Jobs Certain Actors Process Hollywood Pool Thought Process

Author:Chris Klein

“There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project, my agent will tell people that "he's not reading." And then when I know how the movie's probably gonna work halfway into post-production, I'll come along.”

People Knows Certain Reading Know How Projects Productions Core Agents Posts Halfway Post Production

Author:Ang Lee

“There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy. If I'm in it and if there's a scene that has a great set-up, I will go as far as somebody will let me.”

Ifs Self Certain Comedy Scene Conscious Let Me Self Conscious Truism

Author:Ari Graynor

“There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.”

Heart Long Character Helping Guy Certain Growing Up Wise Growing Type Contact Islands Sense Of Humor Mixtures Brooklyn Long Island Moxie Wise Guy

Author:Steve Buscemi

“There's a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play.”

Play Certain Records Urgency

Author:Justin Townes Earle

“There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.”

People Thinking Way Faces Used Certain Seeing Expression Cameras Freak Posters Submissive Posing

Author:Rooney Mara

“There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.”

Way Giving Character Certain Roles Authority Married Command Chains Ties Texture Cameos Chain Of Command

Author:Mark Goddard

“There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV. If you don't want to do too many drugs, you have to start bodily mutilation.”

Ifs Want America Night Certain Middle Tvs Drug Window Bars Injury Middle Of The Night Self Injury Mutilation Middle America

Author:Ani DiFranco

“There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.”

World Challenges Fantasy Figures Imaginative

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“There's a champion in all of us, it's how you choose to find it.”

Champion You Choose

Author:Mark McMorris

“There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.”

Giving Trying Stills Chance Love You Giving Up Get Back Don't Give Up Peeta Mockingjay Mockingjay Book

Author:Suzanne Collins

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.”

Atheism Fronts Foxholes Chaplains

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

Source: Hocus Pocus

“There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.”

I Can Play Character Buying Beans Toasts Supermarkets

Author:Alex Kapranos

“There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'”

Firsts Soul Saws Rhythm Charm Jewish Humor

Author:Alan King

“There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.”

Men Art Painting Chinese Old Man Chinese Proverb

Author:David Hockney

“There's a choice that we have to make as people, as individuals. If you want to be great at something, there's a choice you have to make. We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make a choice. What I mean by that is, there are inherent sacrifices that come along with that. Family time, hanging out with friends, being a great friend, being a great son, nephew, whatever the case may be. There are sacrifices that come along with making that decision.”

People Ifs Want May Mean Choices Individual Decision Cases Sacrifice Son Masters Crafts Hanging Out Inherent Great Friend Nephew Family Time Hanging Out With Friends

Author:Kobe Bryant

“There's a chunk of myself in every part I play...”

Play Chunks

Author:Jay Baruchel

“There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.”

Mind Happens Moving Quality Land Albums Journal Rough Times Cinematic

Author:Ben Gibbard

“There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.”

Country Britain Nationalism Dozen Other Countries Civics

Author:Michael Ignatieff

“There's a clarity that comes with great ideas: You can [easily and simply] explain why something's a great business, how and why it's cheap, why it's cheap for temporary reasons and how, on a normal basis, it should be trading at a much higher level. You're never sitting there on the 40th page of your spreadsheet, as Buffett would say, agonizing over whether you should buy or not.”

Should Ideas Reason Levels Higher Normal Pages Sitting Bases Clarity Temporary Trading Great Idea Higher Level Great Business Agonizing Buffett

Author:Joel Greenblatt

“There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The progress of a few is allowed to stand for the progress of everyone. We can't afford that kind of disaffection at the moment.”

Kind Moments Use Seems America Black Class Progress Trouble Divides Exploits Black America

Author:Darryl Pinckney

“There's a classic story I tell about when I did the Man Show about the retarded conversations that you have with the executive producers and the network.”

Men Stories Shows He Man Conversation Producers Classic Executives Retarded

Author:Joe Rogan

“There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see.”

Persons Ends Body Seems Letting Go Edges Visible Peers Transparent Cliffs Hanging On Over The Edge

Author:Jodi Picoult

“There's a clock on the wall. Press your hand against the face and turn it very slightly to the. Left. There'll be a click to tell you it's done." "Sounds easy enough." "Yes it does," said Sanguine. "Kiss for good luck?" "Maybe later," said Gracious. "How about a handshake?" Asked Donegan.”

Doe Said Done Enough Hands Faces Turns Left Easy Sound Wall Kissing Luck Presses Clock Good Luck Gracious Clicks Handshake Sanguine

Author:Derek Landy

“There's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you, so you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die.”

Ifs Want Home Dies Love You Cry Clubs Wanting To Die

Author:Steven Morrissey

“There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.”

Looks Church Marriage Coffins

Author:George Clooney

“There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the planet today. It's not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is a very mature outlook to question the nature of our reality.”

Children Reality Today Knowing Pieces Missing Planets Materials Planes Dimensions Collectives Mature Mystical Outlook Resurgence Missing Piece

Author:Marianne Williamson

Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles

“There's a combination of things [to survive the road trip]. Humor would be key. If everyone has relatively the same sense of humor, then that helps. And things in common, like food, eating.”

Ifs Helping Would Be Common Keys Eating Combination Sense Of Humor Road Trip

Author:Brendan Benson

“There's a commercial break coming and I'm very excited about it and you know why? Because that's what keeps daddy in suits.”

Knows Break Excited Suits Daddy

Author:Craig Ferguson

“There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'”

Ifs Trying Common Psychology Violence Eternal Criticism Genes Killers Bloody Strife Doom Evolutionary Psychology Apes

Author:Steven Pinker

“There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.”

Order Common Comedy Written Wings Misconception Sketch Comedy

Author:Adam Pally

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