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“There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.”

Looks Made Said Talent Genius Relation Ugly Monsters Inverse

Author:Lena Headey

“There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.”

People Trying Suffering Perception British Mediocrity Educate Pie

Author:James Robertson

“There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel.”

Writing Trying Running Novel Perception Prose Good Writing

Author:Katie Kitamura

“There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.”

Ifs Artist Produce Perception Opposites

Author:Beck

“There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. I want to hear that artist; I don't want to hear me - that's the last thing I want to hear. There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.”

People Helping Artist Perception Helping Others

Author:Beck

“There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.”

Kind Attention Novel Perception Absolutes Details Attention To Detail

Author:Zadie Smith

“There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.”

Children Enough Kids School Left Behinds Perception Left Behind Marketplace No Child Left Behind

Author:Mark Jackson

“There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'”

Needs Fiction Watches Fiction Writers

Author:James Scott Bell

“There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.”

Thinking Knows World Firsts Actors Cases Periods Anxiety Shooting Movie Lunch Floating

Author:Jack Nicholson

“There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.”

Life Inspirational Acceptance Periods Sour Self Identity True Identity

Author:Pearl Bailey

Source: The raw Pearl

“There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me.”

Actors Stars

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself.”

Actors Sides Challenges

Author:Ray Liotta

“There's a pervading sense of loneliness I've had since the day I was born. Maybe a lot of other people feel the same way, but I'm not about to run up and down the street asking everybody if they're as lonely as I am. I'd probably get locked up.”

People Ifs Way Feels Running Born Streets Loneliness Lonely Asking Locked Up And Down Locked Up

Author:Thom Yorke

“There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.”

Feelings Song Records True Feelings

Author:David Byrne

“There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.”

Culture Depends Sick Temperament Phenomenology Personal History Being Sick

Author:Siri Hustvedt

Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

“There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.”

Writing Ideas Bigs Cancer Contemporary Phrases Swelling

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“There's a phrase we live by in America: "In God We Trust". It's right there where Jesus would want it: on our money.”

Want Funny America Jesus Atheism Atheist Phrases Live By Agnostic God We Trust

Author:Bill Maher

“There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with here in the States of the Diaspora Jew, i.e. Jews in America or Europe or Russia, etc. does not fit at all with the reality of the homegrown "sabras" of Israel.”

Mean Doe States Reality America Fit Europe Jew Israel Russia Familiar Phrases Etc Stereotype Diaspora Homegrown

Author:Steven Pressfield

“There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.”

Ifs Knows Writing Mean Done Used Tomorrow Late Sitting Ass Painter Phrases Muse Uncles Grind Showing Up Raphael

Author:Peter S. Beagle

“There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.”

Enjoy Physicality

Author:Ioan Gruffudd

“There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called "Sketch Book"; his name is Vardan Ovsepian.”

Made Book Beautiful Names Sound Records Labels Boston Pianist

Author:Brad Mehldau

“There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.”

Rooms College Disgusting Messy Harvard Campus Undergraduate Dorms Yearbook Dorm Rooms

Author:Brian Greene

“There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.”

Looks Book Real Games Rooms Sitting Coaches Bob Lockers Gary Locker Room

Author:Peter Berg

“There's a pigeon's nest on the branch of the tree outside the window. A chick is growing up in it. I'm happy about that”

Growing Up Growing Tree Window Branches Nests Chicks Pigeons

Author:Aya Kito

“There's a pizza place near where I live that sells only slices. In the back, you can see a guy tossing a triangle in the air.”

Humor Funny Guy Air Sells Pizza Triangles

Author:Steven Wright

“There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.”

Want Firsts Real Return Impulse Suspects Betray Translate My Thoughts

Author:Jerzy Kosinski

Source: The devil tree

“There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's... girls without skin.”

Mean Doe Girl Streets Skins Seven

Author:Tom Waits

“There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.”

Humans Long Real Country Fans Honest Honesty Type Human Experience Realness Real Human

Author:Wynonna Judd

“There's a place for everything and everyone, you know. That is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people have a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it will clog and clot, and rot and fester.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Certain Mistake Waste

Author:Lauren Oliver

“There's a place in Botswana where there are 100,000 elephants living in a single population. Think of the amount of space they need. Remember, the United States would fit in Africa three times over and there would still be space. That's how big Africa is.”

Thinking Needs Stills States Bigs Remember Three Space United United States Amount Fit Population Elephants Three Times

Author:Patrick Bergin

“There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.”

Relate Underdog

Author:Halle Berry

“There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog. I'm always fighting to overcome the obstacle. I can really understand what's that about.”

I Can Fighting Challenges Overcoming Obstacles African American Relate Underdog Always Fighting

Author:Halle Berry

“There's a place in Paris where I'd like to work one day. It's called the Slow Club.”

One Day Clubs Paris

Author:Shirley Horn

“There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.”

Brain Knowing Remembered

Author:John Green

Source: An Abundance of Katherines

“There's a Place in the Sun, where there's hope for everyone.”

Sun

Author:Stevie Wonder

“There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl He's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross And he likes to be known as the angry young man.”

Men World Home Young Lost Known Class Struggle Plans Wall Proud Battle Crosses Angry Refuse Likes Radical Ties Young Man Scar Working Class Places In The World

Author:Billy Joel

“There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?”

Knows Children Mother Father Wife Husband Treats Clean Curse Thought Provoking Deep Thought Child Of God Pristine

Author:Maya Angelou

“There's a place on my arm where I've written her name next to mine.”

Next Names Written Mines Arms Compliment

Author:Tom Waits

“There's a place this moment comes from, where it's made. Actually, it's like a big factory where they make moments, where they make realities, where they make infinities.”

World Made Moments Bigs Reality Buddhism Infinity Factories Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's a place where everything comes together and where it's all the same. That state of mind, in which all things are the same, is the state of mind of Tantric Zen.”

Mind States Together Buddhism All Things State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's a plain girl in everybody.”

Girl

Author:Andrea Corr

“There's a plan B? Jack asked. "You're another," Edilio snapped. "You're not going to tell me again that you won't fight, because I swear to God I'll shoot you myself.”

Fighting Plans Swear Plan B Swear To God

Author:Michael Grant

“There's a plane flying over me and I'm looking forward to being able to relax and not worry about the weather or boat speed.”

Able Worry Speed Flying Weather Boat Planes Relax Looking Forward

Author:Ellen MacArthur

“There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.”

Feels Millions Wall Albums Accomplished Getting Started

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.”

Values Pleasure Ordinary Ordinary Life

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.”

Knows Stills Pain Felt Chance Pleasure Alive Let Me Loving You Loving Someone

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“There's a plethora of wonderful documentaries. I made a point of not looking at anyone else's portrayal of Henry because I think it would have been too confusing - so I've got a lot of films to look forward to.”

Thinking Looks Has Beens Made Film Wonderful Documentaries Confusing Portrayal

Author:Eric Bana

“There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women--I wonder whether there's something in him that's evil. Something that's pure and can't be touched. This quality of evil may be related to the quality of artistry, for an artist has the same characteristics.”

Knows Men Wells May Artist Evil Quality Wonder Pure Related Characteristics Touched Artistry

Author:Kathy Acker

Source: My Mother: Demonology

“There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.”

World Way Feels Writing Long Said Book Real Done Process Labor Painful Articles Writing A Book Said And Done

Author:Alexandra Fuller

“There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. A lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but I have to be ready to do it.”

Feels Writing I Can Character Ready Dialogue Developing Preparation Traits Character Trait Writing Dialogue

Author:Charlie Kaufman

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