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“There's something with actors in their 40s, I don't know - there's this tendency with these guys, either they're not where they wanted to be, or - I mean, this guy was making good money and working a lot. It's almost like they have a bad conscience about the job, like it's unmanly or something, so they try to compensate by busting the director's balls 24/7.”

Knows Trying Mean Wanted Jobs Guy Actors Directors Conscience Balls Tendencies This Guy Good Money Busting Working A Lot

Author:Kurt Voss

“There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.”

Feels Writing Stills Country America Literature Travel Size Attraction Foreign Countries Physical Attraction American Writer

Author:Mark Haddon

“There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.”

Men Culture Contemporary Masculine Faux

Author:David Gordon Green

“There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you've got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine.”

Knows Way Mind Helping Care Know How Greater Imagine Ego Currents Take Care Surrender Within You

Author:Robert Adams

“There's something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar - even in this fake-ass Irish pub.”

Wonderful Cold Drinking Bars Ass Fake Afternoon Pubs Pints

Author:Anthony Bourdain

Source: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

“There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and searchlights feeling their way across the sky like antennae, and the earth shaking snort of the bombs and the whimper of shrapnel pieces when they come down to patter on the roof.”

Way Feelings Earth Song Pieces Sky Creation Quiet Gun Exciting Bombs Aviation Combat Roof Shaking Lighting Aeroplanes Overhead

Author:John Dos Passos

Source: The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos

“There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.”

Years Ends Reason Three Five Four Proud Five Years Wrong Reasons

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“There's something wrong - the performance, the weather, the set design, the lighting. Something is not working. And so you say, "Give me 10 minutes." When you're first directing, you're terrified. But when you've been in that situation enough times, you know that under pressure, it will come to you.”

Knows Giving Firsts Enough Situation Minutes Design Performances Give Me Pressure Weather Terrified Lighting Enough Time Under Pressure

Author:Paul Schrader

“There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers”

Pay Taxes Rate Managers Fund Nurse Hedge Fund Truckers

Author:Lindsey Graham

“There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.”

Mother Literature Fun Water Cups Soap Cleanliness Measuring Soap And Water

Author:Erma Bombeck

“There's something wrong with my brain, it doesn't work properly! I can hear the same pitch in both ears, whereas for most people, if you listen to one pitch in one ear, it's slightly different in the other. That's how your brain works out direction.”

People Ifs I Can Different Brain Ears Work Out

Author:Aphex Twin

“There's something wrong with the brakes." He didn't recognize his shaky, weak voice. He pumped them again. Nothing. "There's something wrong with the BRAKES?" "I don't think we have any." "We don't have any BRAKES?" "Bro, it doesn't help to repeat everything I say!" Jonah yelled.”

Thinking Helping Voice Weak Repeats Brake Jonah Bros

Author:Judy Blundell

“There's something wrong with the system when you've got someone who can provide so much to a company and can be enthusiastic, but isn't management material or whatever. So a lot of that just gets defined as the person who speaks with the loudest voice and gets up there with the most arrogance and overly confident, chest-beating approach. Those are the ones that are going to get the golden ring.”

Speak Management Rings Arrogance Enthusiastic

Author:Milo Aukerman

“There's something you can get away with when you know you're only going to be on one season. There's no sense of, "We should save that." It's just like, "Use that! Get it out there now. They could shut us down any second!"”

Knows Should Use Seasons Get Away

Author:Seth Rogen

“There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.”

Way Photography Garden Photographer Buddhist Working It Gravel Zen Buddhist Zen Like

Author:Chuck Close

“There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything out, and it's more important how it sounds. And applying that to more formal aspects of writing.”

Thinking Writing Important Lost Speak Sound Aspect Formal Translations

Author:James Frey

“There's sometimes a little bit of a trap to limit yourself for an audience.”

Littles Sometimes Bits Audience Limits Little Bit Traps

Author:John Debney

“There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.”

Sometimes Enough Feelings Comfortable Tugging

Author:Criss Jami

Source: Killosophy

“There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.”

Sometimes Wanted Father Tears Dad Benefits Alcohol Violent Motivated Alcoholics Father Son

Author:Dean Koontz

“There's sometimes when I feel really balanced, and there's other times when I feel like I'm trying to keep juggling too many balls in the air, and I feel like I'm on the edge of dropping all of them and having them all land on my head, you know? Scheduling is a big part of it, and the other is just remaining flexible and keeping a sense of humor about things.”

Knows Feels Trying Sometimes Bigs Air Land Balls Edges Sense Of Humor Balanced Flexible Dropping Juggling Scheduling

Author:Michael Franti

“There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London, so I think we've tapped into some of that. Maybe because of the way the press works or whatever, they have extremely knowledgeable music fans over there. People who will sit there and talk to you about some record that came out in 1967 out of Memphis that you've never heard before.”

People Thinking Real Mythology Knowledgeable

Author:Craig Finn

“There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London.”

Real Band London Mythology Fascination

Author:Craig Finn

“There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it.”

Ifs Enough Quiet

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“There's songs that could either be taken as a conversation between two people, like "The Privateers," or "Why," from a much earlier record. Or "Glass Figurine." That's my version of a relationship song.”

People Two Song Taken Records Conversation Glasses Versions

Author:Andrew Bird

“There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.”

Community Perfect Theory Election Crisis China Storm Olympics Explosions Perfect Storm Storms Coming

Author:Bonnie Blair

“There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of embrace who the actors are and try to make the roles more specific to what they bring and what they can do.”

Trying Shows Happens Actors Can Do Roles Tvs Embrace Tv Shows Great Writers

Author:Lucas Neff

“There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.”

Doe Bigs Guy Offers Band Los Angeles Arrangements Orchestra Acquaintance Passed Away

Author:Jello Biafra

“There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your hands. There's an intelligence with language that would lead someone into writing. So it's not necessarily that you're six years old and you know you're going to be a lawyer Or you're going into tech startups or computers. It's something more elemental than that. It's that this is a skill, a way of thinking that comes naturally to me that I was drawn to and it was very clear in childhood.”

People Thinking Knows Way Writing Years Wells Ends Hands Language Clear Childhood Skills Six Computer Math Lawyer Way Of Thinking Elementals Six Year Olds Spatial

Author:Robert Greene

“There's stable subatomic particles - protons, neutrons, electrons - and then there's unstable ones that decay into stable ones. One will become many. There's this constant process of transformation that underlies everything in the entire universe. They also make these beautiful marks through time. It's like the universe was drawing, essentially, at this fundamental level. There's always an alphabet that's based in natural patterns. Sometimes they're just by themselves, sometimes they build up these other things that relate to the conception, that are more at our level of existence.”

Sometimes Beautiful Universe Natural Existence Transformation Rough Times

Author:Kysa Johnson

“There's stars, superstars, and then there's Bobby Orr.”

Stars Superstar

Author:Serge Savard

“There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.”

Want Stills Views Audience Cinema

Author:Michael Winterbottom

“There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.”

Stills Problem Bits Roles Taken Actresses

Author:Joely Richardson

“There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.”

Writing Stills Book Matter No Matter What Length Fascination

Author:Dean Koontz

“There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything.”

Stills Feelings Song Emotion Cry Pure Communicate

Author:David Byrne

“There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything. It has to be mediated with some skill and craft, in order to communicate it to a second, a third, or a fourth person. That doesn't make it any less real. And it doesn't make it any less true. But it does mean that, yeah, it's the combination that makes it work.”

Mean Real Feelings Song Emotion Cry Communicate

Author:David Byrne

“There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.”

Stills Deals Bias Homosexuality

Author:Rupert Everett

“There's still a great hesitancy in the Irish make up about expressing feelings... it'd be nice to say I miss you, I love you, come home.”

Stills Feelings Home Nice Love You Missing Coming Home Being Nice Expressing Feelings

Author:Fionnula Flanagan

“There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.”

People Ifs Humans Stills Ideas Enough Fighting Angry If I Could You Choose Behaviour Despicable Human Behaviour

Author:Neil Peart

“There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.”

Thinking Stills Real Young Culture Girl Growing Up Growing Angry Feminist Pops Hearing Supposed To Be Revelations Young Women Pop Music

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“There's still a lot of people out there who think the only good shark is a dead shark.”

People Thinking Stills Ocean Sharks

Author:Brian Skerry

“There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.”

Ifs Looks Stills Stories Age Actors Careers Males Gender Inequality Massive Centre Hesitation Trajectory Hiatus

Author:Juliet Stevenson

“There's still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I'm not trying to say I'm not happy with the novels I've written in the past. But it always feels to me like there's another one that I have to write that will really say what I want to say, and really paint this world that I can see hazily in my head.”

Thinking World Want Feels Writing Trying Stills I Can Past Novel Written This World Paint Not Happy

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“There's still a place for marching for instance with the Black Lives Matter movement, we've seen the importance of causing a scene, being on the streets and making your demands and your voice heard.”

Stills Matter Black Voice Heard Streets Movement Scene Demand Importance Instance Black Lives Matter Black Lives

Author:Aldis Hodge

“There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see my words with the eyes of the cold public. It gives me a terrible sense of exposure, as if I'd gotten sunburned.”

Ifs Giving Writing Stills Book Moments Eye Moving Position Strange Cold Reader Terrible Give Me Exposure

Author:Eudora Welty

“There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.”

Stills Dies Gone Havens Thousand

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

Source: Choke: A Novel

“There's still always the possibility that I've gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don't think so anymore. An article I once read said that crazy people don't worry about being crazy - that's the whole problem.”

People Thinking Said Stills Whole Problem Worry Gone Crazy Possibility Articles Being Crazy Crazy People Cuckoos

Author:Lauren Oliver

Source: Before I Fall

“There's still another problem which puzzles a lot of people - whether or not a baby will come within the budget. Our sentimental advice is to have one anyway, if you want one and have been through the marriage ceremony. The people who wait till they can afford a baby seldom have one at all except by surprise.”

People Ifs Want Has Beens Stills Problem Waiting Advice Baby Surprise Budgets Sentimental Puzzles Ceremony Marriage Ceremony

Author:Marjorie Hillis

Source: Orchids On Your Budget: Or Live Smartly on What You Have

“There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in sitcoms. That's what the difference is.”

Way Stills Opportunity Stuff Differences Television Storytelling Sitcom

Author:Amy Hill

“There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.”

People World Stills Song Ready Happenings Grateful Injustice Concerts So Grateful

Author:Mavis Staples

“There's still massive racism in the United States today that is rooted in sexual fears, but it's at least considered unacceptable. In Israel it's a mainstream phenomenon that's encouraged and supported by the state because it supports Israel's demographic imperative in its ethnocratic political structure.”

Today Political Support Racism Phenomenon It Support

Author:Max Blumenthal

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