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“I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.”

Writing Stuff Rooms Paper Sitting Empty Performing Interviews

Author:Randy Newman

“I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.”

Ends Whole Character Feelings Reality Lost Stuff Loses Comedy Emotional Empty Connections Viewers Strain Bananas Emotional Connection Funny Stuff

Author:Mike White

“Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.”

Ifs Art Use Stuff Teaching Materials Please Waste Paper Empty Paint Pens Jars

Author:Danny Gregory

“In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.”

Made Bigs Eye Stuff Tree Singing Bird Empty Clock Staring Halls Pens Shore Tides Blank Traffic Rotten Ornaments Measuring Pavement Railway

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.”

Thinking Looks Stuff Half Empty Half Full Half Empty

Author:Pauly Shore

“Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver Twist in the poorhouse, holding up an empty bowl and begging, "I want some more"? Isn't it possible that our dream of the good society contained, from the beginning, a hidden violation of the Tenth Commandment "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"?”

Source: Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments

“You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.”

Needs Able Actors Stuff Walks Rooms Empty Paint Backgrounds Bullshit Great Actors Markers Condescending Empty Rooms

Author:William Friedkin

“Men didn't like to empty bedpans, so we made women nurses. Then men didn't like to do the administrative stuff, so women were allowed to become secretaries. That's the way they entered the work force. Then we began to educate them because they had to be educated. But it wasn't until after World War II that most of the great universities of this country became coeducational.”

Men World Way Made War Country Force Stuff Empty University Educated War Of The Worlds Educate World War Ii Nurse World War I Secretary Administrative

Author:John Shelby Spong

“So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.”

Children Home Left Stuff Black Space Attention Careers Gone Huge Empty Holes Who I Am Your Children Tied Time And Space Mothering Black Hole

Author:Jessica Lange

“Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies ... this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Look at them, all the sad wraiths of sad mad men and passionate rebels — your Schopenhauers, your Strindbergs, your Tolstois and Nietzsches. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget.”

Book Light Stuff Forget Fantasy Empty Glasses Mysticism Shelves Psychics Veils Tissues Hallucinations Gnosticism Vapor Bogs Subjectivism

Author:Jack London

“This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.”

Enough Stuff Half Too Much Empty Half Full Half Empty

Book:Then Again

Source: Then Again

“Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.”

World Home Night Stuff Lines Space Interesting Acting Empty Therapy Space Between Empty Space Between The Lines

Author:Robert Carlyle