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“There's a sameness and comfort level you get living in a country like America.”

“There's a satisfaction in seeing something happen over time.”

Happens Seeing Satisfaction Things Happen

“There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.”

Ifs Knows Writing Use Advice Foundation Good Advice Unbreakable Bad Advice

Author:Stephen King

“There's a saying I always say, "A hit dog will holler." That means a hit record will take you wherever you want to go. I don't care if you're overweight, underweight, ugly, pretty - if you can sing an amazing song I'll sign you.”

Mean Care Song Dog Ugly Overweight

Author:Jim Jonsin

“There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.”

Kind Fighting Battle Studios Be Kind Fireplaces Great Battle

Author:Gloria Vanderbilt

“There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.”

Two Today Remember Tomorrow Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:James Patterson

Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

“There's a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.”

Feet Graves Pregnant

Author:Liya Kebede

“There's a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they've known it all along.”

People Firsts Three Community Known Conflict Thirds Deny Phases

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two."”

Two Design Industry Picks Software Software Design

Author:Larry Wall

“There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.”

People Way Sometimes Funny Walks Fantasy Wrong Wrong Way Discworld Ankh

Author:Terry Pratchett

“There's a saying that goes around that says "I you crossover make sure you bring the cross over." That's definitely my heart and my aim. I want to remain distinct and authentically Christian in whatever realm I'm in.”

Want Heart Christian My Heart Crosses Aim Realms Crossover

Author:LeCrae

“There's a saying that goes, 'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.' OK. How about, 'Nobody should throw stones'? That's crappy behavior. My policy is, 'No stone throwing regardless of housing situation.”

People Should House Situation Policy Behavior Stones Glasses Throwing Housing Glass Houses

Author:Demetri Martin

“There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.”

Giving Universe Nudge Anvils

Author:Sara Genn

“There's a saying that we use in golf: "I'd rather be lucky than good." Of course, to be lucky and good is the ideal. If you study hard, you can get good. And if you get lucky and get the proper parts for people to be able to appreciate what you're doing ... I'm sure there are many actors that are quite talented who have never been a success because they've never had the right opportunity and the right material. My mother used to think I had a guardian angel.”

People Thinking Mother Opportunity Study Lucky Angel Appreciate Golf Guardian Guardian Angel

Author:Clint Eastwood

“There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep.”

Pretending

Author:Willie Parker

“There's a saying within the Asperger community: if you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome, you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome ... Within this condition, beneath this label, the variety of personality, of humor, of behavior, is infinite.”

Ifs Persons Community Inspiring Conditions Personality Mets Behavior Infinite Variety Labels Autism Syndromes Aspergers Asperger's Syndrome

Author:Hugh Dancy

“There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.”

Writing Song Easy Difficult Right Now

Author:Bryan Adams

“There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.”

Ifs Want Forever Love You Dog Pet Love You Forever

Author:Dick Dale

“There's a scene [in the 1990 film Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael] in my bedroom where I start eating Almond Roca. I was so young. It was before I knew the tricks of moviemaking, and I didn't know you shoot a lot of different angles. I gobbled them and didn't realize I had to keep doing it. So I had to eat 64 Almond Roca that day. I got so sick. In the beginning you're like, 'Ooh, that looks good.' But hours later, no.”

Knows Looks Different Home Film Young Realizing Hours Scene Eating Sick Tricks Welcome Coming Home Bedroom Angle So Sick Different Angles Almonds Welcome Home

Author:Winona Ryder

“There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig - an animal easily as intelligent as a dog - that becomes the Christmas ham.”

Years America Sides Animal Half Quality Compassion Dog Intelligent Miserable Sentiments Our Relationship Pigs Pauses Brutality Ham Christmas Present Miserable Life Schizoid

Author:Michael Pollan

“There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.”

People Want Kind Has Beens Brother My Family Institutions Majority Dare Likes My Brother Affected Streaks Schizoid

Author:David Bowie

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“There's a school of thought that says if you legalize drugs it will solve the problem. We're all good liberals, we said let's do it and see what happens. We wanted to be honest about it. So in our brainstorming sessions we'd say, what if? The finding was that all the negative things came out also. The answer is that we didn't believe in the full legalization of drugs. But we don't believe in the criminalization of drugs, either.”

Ifs Believe Said Problem Happens Wanted School Answers Honest Drug Findings Negative Don't Believe Solve Being Honest What If Session Brainstorming

Author:George Pelecanos

“There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form. . . . According to this point of view, there is only a limited number of names, because society only needs a limited number of human types. Just a few models of worker and warrior ants, if I could put it like that. And everybody's psyche is preprogrammed at a basic level by the associative semantic fields that their first name and surname activate.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Humans Persons Form Names Levels Views Numbers Fields Type Models Workers Scripts Point Of View Command Warrior Primaries If I Could Hypothesis Ants Activate Surnames

Author:Victor Pelevin

“There's a screen direction in the script for the pilot where it says, 'Jim Harper, mid-20s, enters,' and it said something to the effect of: 'He's confident without being cocky. He has no idea that he could be considered attractive, because he saw All The President's Men when he was thirteen and never looked up.' It was just a great little gem of a screen direction, and I felt immediately from just that, that I had a good idea of how to play this guy.”

Men Littles Said Ideas Play Guy Felt President Saws Effects Scripts Screens No Idea Attractive Good Ideas Pilots This Guy Thirteen Gems Cocky Harper Being Cocky

Author:John Gallagher, Jr.

“There's a script, then you're going to shoot the script and then you cut that and then that's the end of the film. And that's never really been how I've seen it.”

Ends Film Cutting Scripts

Author:Paul Greengrass

“There's a scripture in the Book of James which says, 'Become a doer of the word and not a hearer only.' A hearer is someone who looks into a mirror, walks away, and quickly forgets what sort of person he is.”

Looks Persons Book Walks Forget Mirrors Scripture Doers

Author:Terrence Howard

“There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.”

Thinking Heart Medicine Scripture Merry

Author:Dolly Parton

“There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.”

Expensive Bedroom Manhood Sculpture Brass Antonio Replica

Author:Melanie Griffith

“There's a sea secret in me / it's plain to see it is rising / but I must be flowing liquid diamonds / calling for my soul / at the corners of the world”

World Soul Secret Sea Calling Corners My Soul Rising Diamond Liquid Corners Of The World

Author:Tori Amos

“There's a second component of a good savings plan, which is something that a colleague of mine called Schlomo Benartzi and I developed many years ago, that we call "save more tomorrow."”

Years Plans Mines Tomorrow Years Ago Saving Colleagues Components Savings

Author:Richard Thaler

“There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.”

Matter Position Involved No Matter What Abortion Pregnant Penalties Death Penalty Pregnant Women

Author:George H. W. Bush

“There's a secret government out here. It's been functioning since the beginning of time, and their whole job is population control. A lot of it is racist, so their target black people and minorities. People need to watch out for that, pay attention to how they're tryin' to change laws, and they're tryin' to control the world. They don't want just America or Europe any more; they want the entire globe.”

People World Black Secret Attention Pay Attention Racist Black People

Author:Prodigy

“There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.”

Knows Writing Real Hard Secret Sitting Resistance Sitting Down Wannabes

Author:Steven Pressfield

“There's a secret to get through loss, pain and grief. If we're alone we can't see who we are. When we join the club, other people become the mirror. Through them, we see ourselves and gain an understanding of what we're going through. Then slowly, real slowly, we learn to accept who we see in the mirror. Then you become the mirror for them; by being honest about who you are, you'll help them learn to love and accept themselves.”

People Ifs Real Helping Pain Understanding Loss Grief Secret Accepting Honest Gains Mirrors Who You Are Clubs Being Honest Who We Are

Author:Melody Beattie

“There's a seeker born every minute.”

Born Minutes Seekers

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

Source: Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death

“There's a segment of this world, there's a mind state that's permeated the intellectual consciousness of this world that comes from a certain type of people that looks at me and you and your average individual as a problem - like a blight on an otherwise potential paradise, something that needs to be cured.”

People World Needs Mind Looks States Problem Certain Individual Consciousness This World Type Intellectual Average Paradise Look At Me Blight

Author:El-P

“There's a sense here in L.A. that everybody's aware of everybody all the time. It's funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.”

People Want Including

Author:Ben Stiller

“There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.”

Certain Novel

Author:William Boyd

“There's a sense in which Marx does contribute to the fund of human knowledge, and we can no more dismiss him than we can [George] Hegel or [Jean-Jacques] Rousseau or [Baruch] Spinoza or [Charles] Darwin; you don't have to be a Darwinian to appreciate Darwin's views, and I don't have to be a Marxist to appreciate what is valid in a number of [Karl] Marx's writings-and Marx would call that a form of simple commodity production rather than capitalism.”

Writing Humans Doe Form Simple Views Numbers Capitalism Appreciate Productions Fund Commodity Marxist Hegel Human Knowledge Spinoza Jean Jacques Rousseau Jacques Rousseau

Author:Murray Bookchin

“There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.”

Hard Enough Hard Work Politician

Author:Tony Abbott

“There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.”

World Moments Feelings Home Winning Player Connections Balls Hug Plates Up And Down Shared Experiences Ball Players Home Plate Shared Moments

Author:Peter Guber

“There's a sense of desperation in Afghanistan because of the lack of funding and the fact that the U.S. only has a one-track military strategy. It doesn't have an economic and political game plan.”

Facts Political Games Plans Economic Military Strategy Track Afghanistan Desperation Funding Game Plan Military Strategy Political Games

Author:Ahmed Rashid

“There's a sense of entitlement and isolationism that I think is really dangerous, and the way globalization and technology have been used isn't really for the best.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Used Technology Dangerous Globalization Entitlement Isolationism Sense Of Entitlement

Author:Rashida Jones

“There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.”

Culture Difficult Situation Sense Of Humor Australian Difficult Situations Australian Culture

Author:Guy Pearce

“There's a sense of knowing when to stop and take a break from things, to step back from the work you're making, and of changing things up to keep them interesting for yourself.”

Interesting Break

Author:Dan Fox

“There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back to our little binary male-female code.”

Littles Female Males Productivity Code Taoism Cripples Binary Male Female

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.”

People Ifs Way Shows Situation Particular Jokes Emphasis Spontaneity

Author:Larry David

“There's a sense of trajectories that are extraordinary about a life like this. You can reconnect with people and go back to playing with them after years and years of not even knowing if they're alive.”

People Ifs Years Knowing Alive Extraordinary Trajectory

Author:David Toop

“There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.”

Body Certain Understanding Habit Behavior Your Body Urgency Sense Of Urgency Good Behavior

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making.”

Doe President Urgency Sense Of Urgency

Author:Rand Paul

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