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“I never thought of myself as being that good looking, I was an actor, people saw me on television, and then they start to think you're good looking because of that presentation. I was no better looking before the show, than after - and before the TV show I couldn't get a date to save my life. So what changed? Did I suddenly become more good looking? No. I got lucky, I got a TV show. That's what happened.”

“I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city”

“As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.”

Ideas Century Changed Models Capitalism Developing Analysis Abstract 19th Century

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The eighties turned the whole system upside down. They would sign three groups and give them five or ten million dollars each to make three records. Out of those three records maybe one would be a hit. The economy changed, and that's why the music changed.”

Giving Whole Would Be Three Millions Economy Records Five Groups Changed Ten Dollars Eighty Million Dollars Upside Down

Author:Tony Visconti

“While waiting for my visa, I got a job in the music industry, which was so exciting, it changed my life and stopped me moving.”

Jobs Moving Waiting Changed Industry Exciting Music Industry Changed My Life Visa

Author:Nicki Chapman

“When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it's hard for them to turn away from it because they're listening to a man talking to them from over a century ago. And nothing has changed. So what are you going to do about that?”

Men Hard Turns Talking Audience Century Changed Listening Sunrise Things Have Changed

Author:Hal Holbrook

“Technology has a great deal to do with it. The Panaflex camera was a big breakthrough when it came along; it changed everything, because now you could shoot from the perspective of a person riding in the backseat of a car.”

Persons Bigs Deals Technology Car Changed Perspective Cameras Riding Breakthrough Backseat

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.”

Believe Forever Identity Changed Prison Don't Believe

Author:Patricia McConnell

“I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way.”

Way Littles Left Changed Prison Destroyed Positively Wrecks

Author:Patricia McConnell

“I always thought books were just the canon, things I couldn't identify with. And then I was introduced to really amazing multicultural literature - it was all things I was trying to do unsuccessfully in my poetry. It really just changed everything. I was introduced to authors like Sandra Cisneros, Gabriel García Márquez, Junot Díaz, and a lot of African American literature, as well.”

Trying Wells Book Literature Changed All Things African American Multicultural Gabriel American Literature Canon Really Amazing

Author:Matt de la Pena

“I think of this a lot in the terms of books. Of course there's a big to-do culturally about e-books versus print books, sales models. The paradigm has changed but my perspective on it is that there's not going to be another paradigm to alight on because everything will continue to evolve so quickly that our brains won't be able to keep up with it.”

Thinking Book Bigs Able Courses Term Brain Changed Perspective Models Evolve Print Versus Paradigm Print Books

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“I can't actually explain why my lines got shorter, but they did. Just as I can't explain why my early poems were 'all image' and my current ones are relatively abstract. The sense of the line changed with the theme, somehow my ear (or brain or heart/mind) fell in love with a short line and very very simple words.”

Mind Heart I Can Lines Simple Brain Changed Ears Currents Abstract Theme Simple Words

Author:Gregory Orr

“Once you have kids and you're married, it's all about them. My life changed. You can see in my records.”

Kids Records Changed Married Life Changing

Author:Five for Fighting

“When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.”

Way Kids Changed Headphones

Author:Matt Nathanson

“I got a job as a children's librarian at PS 175 in Harlem, and that changed everything. That was an epiphany. I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is 100 miles.”

Knows Children Jobs White Five Changed Grew Grew Up Miles Queens Librarian Epiphany Harlem

Author:Lynne Stewart

“There's not many people on the face of the earth that don't know Harry Potter is Daniel Radcliffe. He's had that since he was eleven years old, yet he hasn't changed since the day I met him.”

People Knows Years Earth Faces Changed Mets Harry Potter Potters Eleven

Author:Matthew Lewis

“It's almost obscene when you see people who haven't matured, who haven't changed, who don't have the weight of years on them. So that's interesting to me - to think about playing him into the future, anew.”

People Thinking Years Interesting Havens Changed Weight Obscene Matured

Author:David Duchovny

“My son is everything to me. He's the reason why I get up and I work out the way I work out and train the way that I train. He changed everything about me, so he was a blessing.”

Way Reason Changed Son Blessing Train Work Out Get Up Reason Why My Son

Author:Derrick Rose

“The voice-over world has changed radically in the time that I've been in it. It used to be this rather small, select group of people who did 90 percent of the work. Now it's kind of the reverse: 90 percent of the work is done by this very broad mix of people all over the country, and the guys who used to be the go-to guys are a much smaller percentage now. But there was this massive interest in voice-over as well as in the story, so I think that also added to the film's appeal.”

People Thinking World Wells Kind Country Done Stories Film Used Guy Voice Interest Groups Changed Percent Used To Be Appeals Massive Broads Reverse Percentages Select Voice Over

Author:Fred Melamed

“It's just interesting to me that the physical enactment of that mind moving has gradually changed for you in the last few years. It made me wonder if the change was deliberate in any sense, or procedural, like when A.R. Ammons stuck an adding machine roll into his typewriter to squeeze his verses into shorter lines.”

Ifs Years Mind Made Lasts Moving Lines Interesting Wonder Changed Machines Stuck Verses Deliberate Typewriters

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“Sometimes it's hard to take everyday concerns seriously when you think about vanished ecosystems that existed 300 million years ago and were eradicated by giant explosions. My goals haven't changed, because my goal has always been to save the world!”

Thinking World Years Sometimes Hard Goal Millions Havens Changed Concern Years Ago Everyday Giants Explosions Save The World Ecosystems

Author:Annalee Newitz

“It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant on all sides of this war. It casts a very dark shadow over non-fundamentalist religion.”

War Sides Term Religious Dark Gone Changed Shadow Lifetime Casts Communism Fundamentalist Framed Fundamentalist Religion

Author:Zachary Lazar

“My wife says that I changed people's lives or ways of thinking and that I should always be proud and grateful. If I'm dismissive of what we do sometimes, a little bit, she's like, "I was a fan, you changed my life," or whatever. That's what she says.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Should Littles Sometimes Bits Wife Fans Changed Proud Little Bit Grateful My Wife Be Proud Way Of Thinking Changed My Life You Changed

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if you're not constantly looking at your education model and adjusting for the change, you'll find yourself teaching antiquity. Like all of these programs that won't accept students who are writing genre fiction - what an institutional ego!”

Ifs World Writing Fiction Accepting Teaching Changed Students Ego Models Concepts Program Genre Finding Yourself Filmmaking Publishing Academy Antiquity Adjusting

Author:Tod Goldberg

“I don't know what people want, really. Does somebody have to die? What is meant by resolution? These are questions that I don't quite know what to do with. That being said, I did want the characters to be changed by the end of the book. But will what they've gone through alter their lives from this point forward, i.e. will they make different (better) choices? Probably not.”

People Knows Want Doe Said Book Different Ends Character Dies Choices Gone Changed Resolution

Author:Mary J. Miller

“Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can be approached in fiction than in fact. There are risks for the reader, because after reading certain books you find you have changed irreversibly. There are risks for writers: in China, now, and Ethiopia and other countries right now, writers face real persecution.”

“It's a little bit about being a global citizen, with all the United Nations positive umph that there is with that phrase - it's about being a positive do-gooder. But it's also: how can I participate in globalization in a really clear way? Like: don't leave the house unless you can bring something worthy into the world. And so Nicaragua changed the way that I want to do things.”

World Way Want Littles House Nations Bits United Clear Changed Citizens Little Bit Worthy Phrases United Nations Globalization Global Citizen Nicaragua

Author:Anne Elizabeth Moore

“I've changed over my writing life. If I can generalize, I would say that the more recent poems - believe it or not - are more pointedly political; although, if the earlier poems were more existential, they were still political; though, in their own way, had a complicated presence.”

Ifs Way Writing Believe Stills I Can Political Changed Complicated Existential Writing Life I've Changed

Author:Gerald Stern

“I like to think that I've grown as an actor and things have changed, and I think so.”

Thinking Actors Changed Things Have Changed

Author:Maika Monroe

“I just changed as a person and have always been changing constantly from fifteen to twenty-three.”

Persons Three Changed Twenties Fifteen

Author:Katy Perry

“I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.”

Mind Changed Grew Grew Up Conservative Mum

Author:Elton John

“What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.”

Firsts Children Two Results Four Changed Huge Our Children

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.”

Thinking World Needs Writing Stills I Can Feelings Growing Changed Responsible Work Out Deny Growing Old Growing Older Things Have Changed

Author:Denise Duhamel

“My parents, though very loving, were not what one would ever describe as outgoing and therefore when I was young I was quite shy and socially awkward. Having a camera changed all that. It gave me an excuse to go anywhere and approach anybody.”

Young Parent Changed Approach Cameras Excuse Shy Awkward Outgoing Socially Awkward

Author:Derek Ridgers

“Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.”

Way Wanted Records Heard Modern Changed Bob Dylan Modern Times

Author:Elton John

“At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.”

Heart Littles Kids Rooms Records Fans Changed Sitting Rounds Labels Colour Little Kid Music Fans

Author:Elton John

“I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.”

Ifs Knows Giving Firsts Looks Next Gone Minutes Havens Changed Giving Up First Time Studios Piano Thrill

Author:Elton John

“Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had to work a couple of jobs to earn money, so I didn't have time to write.”

Writing Jobs Used Changed Couple Busy Used To Be

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier world that could negotiated more easily and more quickly. In the novel, I even changed the narrator from a man to a woman.”

Men World Writing Stories Novel Changed Relief Short Story Narrators

Author:Leni Zumas

“For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed objects. The inscription made it magic and changed its meaning. That's how objects become charmed in The Arabian Nights, and they are often originally ordinary objects. The carpet is an ordinary, paltry object. The lamp is a rusty old lamp, and the bottles jinns are imprisoned within are old bottles. They are changed by the magic and the jinn's presence, and the jinn's presence is often embodied in the seal or inscription.”

Made Law Night Company Gone Magic Share Example Objects Changed Ordinary Made It Smoke Bottles Venture Lamps Carpet Printed Seals Mississippi Charmed Inscriptions Arabian Jinn Arabian Nights

Author:Marina Warner

“It seemed to me to be a parable of the exchange of goods, rather Marxist in some ways, in the new world of global forces. What the forgers do is write the brand name to try and change it, and it works! Loads of people buy fake Prada handbags, or Chanel sunglasses; they've been changed. They have been truly, really changed.”

People World Way Writing Trying Has Beens Names Force Changed Brands Fake Goods New World Load Marxist Parables Sunglasses Handbags Prada Brand Names

Author:Marina Warner

“I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it has certainly changed my relationship to how books get made.”

Way Writing Made I Can Book Running Changed Presses Not Sure

Author:Danielle Dutton

“I can be a fairly hands-on editor, and when I'm editing someone I feel intensely invested in that writer and her work. I love helping to shape a book, and I feel very privileged to get to do that with writers I'm excited about. I think doing that work for the past six years has changed me, and it better prepared me for the questions and suggestions.”

Thinking Feels Years I Can Book Helping Hands Past Changed Shapes Six Prepared Excited Editors Editing Privileged Suggestions

Author:Danielle Dutton

“I've always been curious about people's psychedelic experiences, and I kind of had this assumption that I was going to have some kind of crazy mindblowing psychedelia thing happening, but actually, it was very quiet, and I didn't have any hallucinations at all. Nothing changed, except that suddenly I could hear the voice of my conscience, which I didn't ever think of as being a real voice. And ever since having that experience, I've had that voice in my head and followed it occasionally.”

People Thinking Kind Real Voice Crazy Changed Quiet Happenings Conscience Things Happen Curious Assumption Things Change Psychedelic Hallucinations Psychedelic Experience Voices In My Head

Author:Larkin Grimm

“Jewish communities in the diaspora are very important to Israel and we are open to a dialogue with them. It is bitter for us to see the process of assimilation, the mixing of Jewish and non-Jewish. But when it comes to the relations of state and religions, the basics have not changed since Rabin's times.”

Important States Process Community Changed Relation Israel Dialogue Bitter Mixing Assimilation Basics Diaspora Jewish Community

Author:Ayelet Shaked

“I'm trying to create artwork that makes people, and myself, think about judgment as a reflex. This is something that must be changed.”

People Thinking Trying Changed Judgment Artwork Reflexes

Author:eL Seed

“There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their cell phone I'm, like, angry with them. And in my mind, all the things that I really value in terms of art, really good novels or films or comics, I know they all take a long, long time to create, and they take a lot of concentration and dedication...and I just feel like the training for that is becoming more and more rare when people are used to seeing things like YouTube clips, and being able to acquire things instantly.”

“My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.”

Years Courses Literature Study Changed Students College Fit Musician Thirds Extraordinary Changed My Life Conservatory Studying Literature

Author:Garth Greenwell

“My first instrument was the drums. Not quite sure why I quit and changed to guitar, but I'm sure my parents might have convinced me that the guitar was way better.”

Way Firsts Might Parent Changed Instruments Guitar Convinced Quitting I Quit

Author:Jill Sobule

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