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“I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.”

Age Used Lying Bones Lazy Sugar Couches Cubes Dissolving

Author:Guy Maddin

“I have this weird thing where all the artists that I find myself engaging with the most are the ones that I have a bone to pick with.”

Artist Picks Bones Engaging Weird Things

Author:Owen Pallett

“I used to routinely break my ribs doing stupid things onstage, but I have a healthy fear of breaking my bones now.”

Used Break Stupid Healthy Bones Ribs Stupid Things Healthy Fear

Author:Michael Gira

“I don't have a religious bone in my body but I believe artists (of any medium), in our best selves, are vessels of truth.”

Believe Self Body Artist I Believe Religious Bones Mediums Vessel Best Self

Author:Michael Hyatt

“Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.”

People Different Speak Language Structure Bones Different Languages

Author:Devendra Banhart

“I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I think the threw me a bone as the war was winding down, and I think they accepted my sincerity for being against that war.”

Thinking War Down And Prison Bones Accepted Canada Sincerity Winding Down Conscientious Objectors

Author:Joe R. Lansdale

“I know the Pollock novel. Read it last year and liked it. Daniel Woodrell is awesome. I especially like the book Winter's Bone, and the film made from it. Larry Brown is terrific, all his work, but for me Joe in particular, also a good film, but a much better novel.”

Knows Years Made Book Lasts Film Novel Particular Winter Bones Brown Last Year Terrific Larry Good Films Pollock

Author:Joe R. Lansdale

“Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.”

Thinking Feet Broken Overcoming Good Things Series Bones Healed

Author:Mallory Ortberg

“In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.”

Years Problem Simple Pages Mathematics Definitions Bones Mathematics And Science

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“I can only wonder what astronauts must feel like or something like that when you're really in the space of silence and you are feeling and breathing in a way that you're really aware of your muscle and bone and the breath and the body and the movement and all of those things that just you take for granted in the urban landscape.”

Way Feels I Can Feelings Body Space Silence Wonder Movement Breaths Bones Granted Landscape Breathing Muscles Urban Astronaut Urban Landscape

Author:DJ Spooky

“Dividing the swing into its parts is like dissecting a cat. You'll have blood and guts and bones all over the place. But you won't have a cat.”

Blood Cat Golf Bones Guts Swings Dividing Dissecting

Author:Ernest Jones

“Bridges - a master of subtle brilliance - plays the hell out of it. Not by showing off, but by going bone-deep into a character who only thinks he's running on empty. Crazy Heart may finally win him the Oscar that's unfairly eluded him and it offers the pleasure of watching a great actor at the peak of his form.”

Thinking Heart May Play Character Running Form Actors Winning Pleasure Hell Crazy Masters Offers Empty Bones Bridges Subtle Oscars Brilliance Showing Off Great Actors

Author:Peter Travers

“Delicious foods are drugs that will inflame the gut and rot the bones, but there is no harm if one eats moderately. Delightful things are all purveyors of destruction and decadence, but there is no regret if one enjoys them moderately.”

Ifs Enjoy Regret Drug Destruction Bones Harm Guts Taoism Delightful Delicious No Regrets Decadence Delicious Food Delightful Things

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Most of what we know about human evolution comes from these: the fossilized bones of our ancestors. With their help, we've traced our evolution from small furry creatures to the big-brained beings we've become today. But bones can't tell us everything.”

Knows Humans Helping Bigs Today Evolution Creatures Bones Ancestor Human Evolution Furry

Author:Ziya Tong

“I think it's always good to learn a craft from scratch the real way, so that you've learned it from the basis, the raw bones, and then you have that to fall back on. I personally wouldn't want it any other way.”

Thinking Way Want Real Fall Bases Bones Crafts Scratches Fall Back

Author:Naomi Campbell

“I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the equation when you are making a movie. The director really is in charge. Actors are as important or unimportant as the rest of the people around them.”

People Knows Feels Important Actors Sound Acting Directors Bones Equations Earnest Unimportant Small Parts

Author:Julia Stiles

“I dress for the occasion. I like Tom Ford for more formal, especially his suits, and I wear a lot of Under Armour for my athletic gear. I also love Rag & Bone.”

Dresses Bones Suits Occasions Toms Formal Athletic Gears Rags Armour Under Armour

Author:Tom Brady

“There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they just come out with these zingers that just make you howl with laughter. Usually you find these people in the road crew. A good crew is a key to a healthy funny bone.”

People Knows Mean Keys Healthy Laughter Bones Crew Howl Funny People Funny Bones

Author:Tori Amos

“This is really funny, but we did a study of the occupations of female characters on TV, and there are so many female forensic scientists on TV because of all the CSI shows and Bones and whatever. I don't have to lobby anybody to add more female forensic scientists as role models. There's plenty.In real life, the people going into that field now are something like two-thirds women.”

People Two Real Character Shows Roles Study Fields Tvs Models Female Scientist Thirds Add Bones Real Life Plenty Occupation Role Models Female Characters Forensics Csi

Author:Geena Davis

“Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books. The Great Spring and the thirtieth anniversary of Bones just came out and while I'm happy and excited about that, I've already finished a new book. That's what practice does. You don't get caught.”

Writing Doe Book Attention Practice Doors Spring Paid Caught Excited Bones Finished New Books

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“... without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold as stones, they seemed to become, when love was done; inhuman, indifferent, self-absorbed, numb.”

People Love Self Done Seems Cold Capacity Stones Bones Dry Indifferent Numb Inhuman Self Absorbed

Author:Elizabeth von Arnim

“"Sometimes", says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence."”

People Needs Feels Sometimes Body Seems Wish Broken Evidence Fellows Casts Illness Bones Depressive

Book:Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

Source: Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

“This religion teaches that 6,000 years ago God made the first man out of dust - not even mud - and the first woman out of a bone; that God cursed the whole human race because a snake made the woman eat an apple; that God had a son by another man's wife, and that he had this son murdered in order to keep himself from sending all the human race to hell.”

Men Years Firsts Humans Made Whole Order Race Teach Hell Wife Atheism Son Years Ago Bones Dust Human Race Apples Mud Snakes Another Man Cursed

Author:Charles Chilton Moore

“I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."”

Heart Lines Talking Bones Shops Ladders Foul Rags Yeats

Author:Robert Hass

“To millennials, the Democratic Party is the party of endless debt, it is the party of low-wage jobs, it is the part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, it is the party of the KXL pipeline, which was only stopped because, you know, because we, the voters, you know, just worked our bones - you know, worked ourselves to the bone in order to stop it.”

Knows Jobs Order Party Lows Democratic Bones Debt Endless Voters Partnership Democratic Party Trans Pacific Millennials Pipeline

Author:Jill Stein

“My wife and I always have a winter holiday that I call the "fly and flop". In January and February, you don't want culture, you just want to get your bones warm and eat, drink, sleep. We usually go to the Caribbean.”

Want Culture Sleep Wife Drink Winter Warm Bones My Wife Holiday January February Caribbean Winter Holiday

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“Because Ajamu Baraka speaks in the language of his community, and makes no bones about it, he really invites in a whole new demographic of voters who have been locked out? - African-American and black and brown people and indigenous people? - who have felt like this system has no place for them. And he is unapologetic about standing up for the rights of the oppressed people and against colonialism and against imperialism.”

“I don't know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn't feel like a line to me. You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that's, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.”

People Knows Feels Belief Felt Lines Know How Optimism Institutions Bones Barack Bridges Contradiction Sincere Reverting

Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates

“I love [my father] so much with all my heart and my soul with every bone in my body I love him so much because he's done so much for me.”

Heart Soul Done Body Father My Heart Bones My Soul I Love Him

Author:Kanye West

“The idea that it's smart to allow Wall Street firms, with this "too big to fail" imprimatur, to become hedge funds again - it's unconscionable. You're essentially saying we're going to take some elites in our society and let them roll the bones in the marketplace, and if it works out they get rich, and if it doesn't work out the taxpayer comes in again. That seems absolutely crazy to me. That seems to be where they're headed. I mean, maybe they're not and I'm wrong. Maybe they'll do sensible things. It's hard to know! There doesn't seem to be a plan.”

Ifs Knows Mean Ideas Hard Bigs Seems Rich Plans Failing Crazy Streets Wall Smart Work Out Bones Firm Our Society Fund Sensible Elites Taxpayers Marketplace Get Rich Hedge Fund

Author:Michael Lewis

“It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary marrow of my bones.”

Feels I Can Ideas Hard Reality Would Be Interesting Bones Weary Marrow Chilled Interesting Ideas

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“There is a lot of flesh to be put on the bones - but there is at least an opening for a more pragmatic, less ideological debate about how to build economies that work for people, within the limits of our planet.”

People Economy Planets Limits Bones Flesh Debate Opening Our Planet Ideological Pragmatic

Author:Mariana Mazzucato

“I want women and girls everywhere to know - deep in their bone marrow - that girls are born special, whole, and perfect, and nothing can alter that.”

Knows Want Whole Girl Born Perfect Special Bones That Girl Marrow I Want A Woman Bone Marrow

Author:Christiane Northrup

“I know that for category purposes, people have to lump certain artists in with genre that they make their name or their bones in. Nobody can tell me that Taj Mahal is pure blues. Nobody can tell me that Mike Bloomfield was pure blues. It was a lot of other things going on as well.”

People Knows Wells Purpose Artist Certain Names Pure Bones Genre Categories Mike Lumps Taj Mahal Mahal

Author:Joe Louis Walker

“I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to take songs apart, down to their bones. Songwriters would hire me to produce their demos, which lead me to become a songwriter. The relationship and power music has to TV and film attracted me to composing [and] I learned to write for instruments other than guitar.”

Writing Film Song Player Produce Tvs Band Instruments Guitar Bones Songwriters Touring Sixteen Composing Guitar Player Leading Me Demos

Author:Danny Jacob

“T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.”

Said Rocks Music Is Bones Daddy Rock Music

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“There's a film there in competition [of Sundance Film Festival] called To The Bone. It's directed by Marti Noxon. I have a supporting role in it. It got really well received. It's a really great film.”

Wells Film Roles Competition Bones Really Great Festivals Great Film Film Festivals Sundance Supporting Roles

Author:Keanu Reeves

“All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed in some form. But they all went east. That's where a Greek went to make his bones so to speak. And Alexander the Great was the first man who actually went east not to plunder, not to loot and come back to Greece - which is where the Macedonians wanted to go back with the money. He stayed. And he became half-Eastern.”

Men Firsts Wanted Form Speak Half Gone Hero Bones Myth East Greek Eastern Greece Achilles Plunder Greek Myth Theseus Perseus

Author:Oliver Stone

“Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.”

Ifs Men Children Persons Made Said Whole Facts Body Individual Alive Blood Example Hair Creatures Losing Bones Flesh Despite Old Man Living Creatures

Author:Plato

“No one is banging my door down to be a superhero. I don't know how good I would be. I have low bone density, so I don't know if anyone really wants to put me in a cape and chuck me out a window. But a lot of my friends, who are great actors and who come from film, are doing TV because that's where the opportunities are. For us, it does feel like it's similar to making the movies that we used to make.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Doe Would Be Film Used Actors Opportunity Know How Doors Tvs Lows My Friends Window Bones Superhero Chuck Great Actors Banging Capes Density

Author:Winona Ryder

“Because of who I am and what place I have now in India, I'm petitioned all the time to get involved. It's exhausting and very difficult to have to say, 'Look, I'm only one person. I can't do everything.' I know that I don't want to be worn to the bone where I lose my sense of humor.”

Knows Want Looks Persons I Can Difficult Loses Involved India Bones Who I Am Sense Of Humor Worn Get Involved Exhausting

Author:Arundhati Roy

“I am a naturally buoyant person. I am a naturally energetic person... always have been. I have to say that it's important for everyone, but especially for women (given our bone density issues) to walk - even ambling for a couple of miles is better than not walking at all.”

Persons Has Beens Important Given Walks Issues Couple Walking Bones Miles Energetic Density

Author:Rita Moreno

“How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them nearly formed around him, already within reach. He saw them in a bone, in the bumps of a cave, in a piece of wood. One form suggested a woman to him, another a buffalo, still another the head of a monster.”

Men Stills Form Saws Pieces Woods Bones Monsters Block Caves Marble Bumps Buffalo Within Reach

Author:Pablo Picasso

“What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.”

Men Sometimes Objects Stones Skins Notion Woods Bones Primitive Fabric Ivory Bronze Pottery Primitive Man

Author:Pablo Picasso

“I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.”

Thinking Men Made Age Beautiful Gone Objects Ought Thousand Stones Skins Woods Bones Fabric Tribes Statues Ivory Fetish Prehistoric Stone Age Beautiful Objects Prehistoric Man African Tribes

Author:Pablo Picasso

“I love bats! Women are scared of them. They think bats can get caught in their hair, don't they? But bats are the most beautiful of animals, extraordinarily delicate. Have you observed their brilliant little eyes, gleaming with intelligence, and their skin, silky as velvet? And look at all these delicate little bones.”

Thinking Looks Littles Eye Beautiful Animal Hair Skins Caught Scared Bones Brilliant Delicate Bats Velvet

Author:Pablo Picasso

“I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull.”

Real Passion Dog Bird Bones Sheep Skulls Skeletons Rhinoceros

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they were first modeled in clay? Any bone you look at, you always find fingerprints on it.”

Firsts Looks Bones Impression Clay Mold Fingerprints

Author:Pablo Picasso

“The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.”

I Can Bones Amused Fingerprints

Author:Pablo Picasso

“For me all governments are my enemies and I've never made any bones about it any other way other than directly, and I don't fly the left flag or the right flag, me, I'm common sense.”

Way Made Government Left Common Enemy Bones Common Sense Flags

Author:John Lydon

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