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“Of course it's contrived, but once you know how its contrived, you can understand the editorial viewpoint. CNN, for example, when you see where they're really coming from, you can subtract their bias, and get some sort of facts. Sometimes the amount of bias that is imposed in these things is so laughable that it gives you an extra layer of entertainment.”

Knows Giving Sometimes Facts Courses Know How Example Amount Entertainment Extras Layers Bias Viewpoints Editorials Cnn Laughable

Author:Frank Zappa

“Father-daughter has a lot of layers, I find.”

Father Daughter Layers Daughter To Father

Author:Maren Ade

“I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.”

Deals Emotional Relation Layers

Author:Elie Wiesel

“It fascinates me to analyze these things and, yes, to see layers in the texts and the building up of Biblical literature. I think this provides insights that one simply does not get by the direct approach.”

Thinking Doe Literature Building Approach Direct Insight Layers Biblical Building Up Direct Approach

Author:Frank Moore Cross

“I am looking for the word which is there and shouldn't be there. I wonder, why is it there? Or I look for problems: the Akedah [the Binding of Isaac - Genesis 22]. It still baffles me. Each time I read it - and I read it at least twice a year - each time I discover new layers in it. Always. So this is of more concern to me than the minimalists.”

Years Looks Stills Problem Wonder Concern Layers Genesis Binding Isaac

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I was pretty realistic to people about what we could get done, and the situation we were in, and trying to tamp down expectations. If you listen to my stump speeches, if you listen to what I said at Grant Park, I kept on saying, "Look, this is not just about me, this is not going to happen in one year, or one term, or even one presidency." And we tried to layer into everything we were saying a sense of hope, but also realism.”

People Ifs Trying Years Looks Said Done Happens Term Situation Speech Expectations Parks Grants Realistic Layers Realism Presidency Stumps

Author:Barack Obama

“I don't see those paintings as abstractions, especially because they are emblems of the inkblot. They aren't smashed together; they are constructed shape-by-shape, layer-by-layer, like any other picture.”

Together Painting Shapes Layers Abstraction Emblems

Author:Kerry James Marshall

“I think there's grays in characters if you look at all the great characters, those characters that have those layers of being good and being bad and what's the struggle. It's always more interesting to watch.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Character Interesting Watches Struggle Be Good Layers Great Character Being Bad

Author:Jamie Foxx

“When you have this long of a run [in The Big Bang Theory], you don't have to have something happen every episode. Like, Sheldon lost his virginity last season and in the first season he didn't even like girls. So I feel like you can earn that stuff. And that is really fun, because you get to find new layers. It's a testament to the writing.”

Feels Writing Firsts Long Bigs Happens Running Lasts Girl Lost Fun Stuff Theory Like You Seasons Things Happen Layers Episodes Testament Bangs Virginity

Author:Simon Helberg

“From the time of Dante [Alighieri], when you have the Ptolemaic universe, you had God on the outside like a hypersphere, and then in the center you have the Earth, all the seven heavens and layers, and then you have the Mount of Purgatory and Hell right in the center, and here's Satan flapping his wings and he keeps making the lake of Cocytus ice so you can't get out. So, again, where Heaven and Hell are, who the hell knows that now?”

Knows Earth Universe Heaven Hell Wings Seven Ice Satan Lakes Layers Heaven And Hell Purgatory Flapping

Author:Paul Laffoley

“Life is going to be a constant peeling back of layers, a constant unlearning of what we've been taught or believe to be true. I think that I've come to terms with the fact that that's just going to happen for the whole duration of my life. I feel really good about being able to look myself in the face and say, "Oh, who are you now?" And that might change.”

Thinking Feels Believe Looks Whole Facts Might Happens Able Faces Life Is Term Taught Constant Being True Layers Duration Peeling

Author:Alicia Keys

“I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.”

Code Buried Layers

Author:William Gibson

“You got to remember, S corporations pay one layer of tax, corporations pay two layers of tax. So we basically see equivalent, but here`s the point. The rest of the world, they tax their businesses at an average rate in the industrialized world of 23 percent. Our corporate is 35. Our top S corporate, small business rate is 44.6 effectively. This is killing us.”

World Two Remember Pay Taxes Percent Killing Rate Average Corporate Corporations Layers Small Business

Author:Paul Ryan

“With couture you have faithfulness - people are faithful to you. In couture, you will see that the cut looks like a lace dress from a distance, but it's only when you get nearer you understand that it's layers of lace, hand stitched in a certain shape, all the work - the zips, the buttons, the hooks... it goes on.”

People Looks Hands Certain Cutting Goes On Shapes Dresses Distance Faithful Have Faith Layers Buttons Hook Faithfulness Lace Zips Couture

Author:Riccardo Tisci

“Harriet Tubman is the perpetuation of a "Super Soul Sunday" every day. Learning about her and the layers of her helps you to see that the same woman who holds a gun and an axe felt feelings for a man.”

Men Soul Helping Feelings Felt Gun Sunday Layers

Author:Aisha Hinds

“I spent a lot of time trying to layer upon layer upon layer as I wrote. I think that's often the fear of a writer, that little nuances won't get picked up.”

Thinking Trying Littles Layers Nuance

Author:Morgan Parker

“They say you have to get and stay sober for yourself, and of course I agree with that, but I've really appreciated the added stakes of having someone relying on me for survival. My daughter makes me want to do right. That doesn't mean I won't relapse again. It's happened to me before. But she adds a layer of love in my life that I've never known.”

Want Mean Courses Known Happened Survival Daughter Agree Add My Daughter Stakes Layers Sober Appreciated Relapse

Author:Joshua Mohr

“Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don't know where the next meal is coming from. It is not a big barrier of taking the rich with the poor in a big society to provide schooling for all.”

Ifs Knows Bigs Next Poor Poverty Rich Bottom Meals Barriers Layers Schooling

Author:Amartya Sen

“The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction, the masterful work of the DP [Director of Photography] Kevin McKnight and his crew, and the layers and depths each actor goes to to ensure we the audience feel a human connection to these characters led me to sign my name on the dotted line.”

Feels Writing Humans Character Shows Actors Names Lines Audience Directors Photography Connections Depth Layers Episodes Crew Precise Artistry Kevin Human Connection

Author:Aisha Hinds

“I always forbade everyone to clean my studios, dust them, not only for fear they would disturb my things, but especially because I always counted on the protection of dust. It's my ally. I always let it settle where it likes. It's like a layer of protection.”

Clean Studios Protection Likes Dust Settling Allies Layers

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring, but to play someone who just has that under layer of unhappiness, you know that it comes from someplace.”

Knows Play Nice Boring Unhappiness Layers Being Nice Exhausting

Author:Sandra Bullock

“A novel must work as a story because no one's going to get to the other themes if you don't entertain the reader. But I like to have another layer of meaning, although you can read the book on one level and not bother with that other layer.”

Ifs Book Stories Levels Novel Reader Bother Theme Layers

Author:Robert Cormier

“Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I'll write about what I write about and assume that I'm being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.”

Thinking Writing Believe Important Opportunity I Believe Assuming I Believe In Extras Believe In God Layers Fascists I Believe In God

Author:Dar Williams

“When I am recording on my own, it's like an oil painting: I can put that on top of that and build up layers. But with the band, it turned out more watercolor: you're leaving white bits of paper exposed, so that nothing is too overworked.”

I Can Bits My Own White Painting Band Paper Leaving Oil Exposed Layers Watercolors Oil Painting

Author:Conor O'Brien

“Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don't cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears - you know, it's a horrible thing.”

People Knows World Cry Tears Adults Deserve Protection Horrible Layers Homeless Horrible Things Homeless People

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.”

Stills Hard Natural Brain Fit Bones Shock Layers Twists Fluid Skulls Tissues Torque Shock Absorber

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.”

Ifs Funny Political Layers Floats This Society Stew Scum

Author:Edward Abbey

“This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.”

People Knows World Running Know How This World Layers Peasants

Book:The Good Terrorist

Source: The Good Terrorist

“When I'm at craft services, I make the best-tasting,10-layer meat and cheese sandwich with no bread.”

Bread Crafts Meat Layers Cheese Sandwiches Tasting Cheese Sandwiches

Author:Kellan Lutz

“I like to layer when I fly - the climate always changes from the airport to the plane to the new city.”

Cities Climate Planes Layers Airports

Author:Shay Mitchell

“I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.”

Depth Layers Arrangements

Author:Van Morrison

“Layer by layer art strips life bare.”

Art Layers

Book:Posthumous Papers of a Living Author

Source: Posthumous Papers of a Living Author

“I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.”

Character Deeper Layers

Author:Edward Norton

“There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it.”

Ifs Play Character Drama Conflict Layers Grappling

Author:Clive Owen

“Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.”

Organization Management Distance Customers Managers Layers

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.”

Cutting Layers Staff Civilians Pentagon

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.”

Care America Needed Health Care Layers Transparency

Author:Paul Ryan

“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”

Life Inspirational Sometimes Motivational Spiritual Success Life Is Cry Food Positive Inspirational Life Layers Simile Life Is Like Onions Peeling Ozone Layer Peeling An Onion

Author:Carl Sandburg

“Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.”

Acting Layers Onions Peeling Peeling An Onion

Author:Juliette Binoche

“It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!”

Men Humor Funny Stupid Layers Wraps Rockets Ozone Ozone Layer Ozone Depletion

Author:Lewis Black

“The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.”

Mean Fundamentals Surface Atoms Layers Removal Electrons

Author:Johannes Stark

“When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.”

Process Involved Layers

Author:Cate Blanchett

“I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.”

Writing Trying Bigs Film Song Fighting Actors House Rooms Records Pieces Huge Albums Movie Collections Layers Collectors Soundtracks Vinyl

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.”

Political Politics Democracy Democratic Paint Surface Colour Covered Layers Aristocracy American Society American Democracy Breaking Promises Aristocratic Democracy In America

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!”

Looks Funny Girl Asks Beach Layers Traveled Funny Things Arabia Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Vera Wang

“I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.”

One Thing Layers Just Being

Author:Paul Weller

“I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.”

Body Hands Able Moving Found Stuff Healing Yoga Trauma Layers Therapists Massage Better Now Massage Therapists

Author:Ricky Williams

“I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.”

Trying Proud Who You Are Who I Am Shy Layers Shells Be Proud Shyness

Author:Ricky Williams

“Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.”

Thinking Happens Eye Age Myth Accepted Scales Cynical Cynicism Layers Rip

Author:Julian Baggini

“Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.”

Kind Film Actors Imagination Fantasy Directors Hatred Majority Settling Locked Layers

Author:Danny Boyle

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