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“There's something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I realize almost every film is fated to be seen for a year in theaters, and then forever after on television.”

Years Mean Bigs Film Realizing Forever Television Theater Impact Screens Ever After Big Screen

Author:Kenneth Lonergan

“Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.”

Years Mean Art Sometimes Problem Seems Artist Quality Audience Taste Ten Artistic Momentary Fluctuation Glitches

Author:Jerry Saltz

“One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.”

Knows Mean Ballots Nuisance Oracles

Author:Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

“It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.”

World Mean Community Hispanic Mean The World To Me

Author:Mark Sanchez

“We are still resisters, and we are still resisting the occupier militarily and culturally and by all the means of resistance. Repeat after me: No, no for the occupier.”

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Author:Muqtada al Sadr

“I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means 'low-carbon consumption.' This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food.”

“With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.”

Writing Mean Forget Pulling Consumed Forget You

Author:Paullina Simons

“If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.”

People Ifs Mean Left Answers Rooms Leader Lord Doubt Humble Proof Certainty Prophet Great Leader Moses Be Humble False Prophets

Author:Pope Francis

“We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.”

Mean Prepared Climate Climate Change Disaster Thanks Eras Entering Worldview Rumours

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“I mean I was famous for nothing.”

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Author:Rick Springfield

“I mean, Janet Jackson? She's like Michael Jackson with hair.”

Mean Hair

Author:Ronnie Spector

“I would love to do a musical. When I did Fame L.A. for a year - all the singing, dancing and acting - I was in heaven. I cried so much when they cancelled the show. I mean, I loved going to work and I couldn't wait to get on the set.”

Years Mean Shows Heaven Waiting Acting Fame Singing Dancing Musical Cried Going To Work Singing Dancing

Author:Roselyn Sanchez

“I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.”

Knows Mean Sometimes Wish Bigger Yeah Bigger And Better

Author:Rupert Sanders

“I've not had a mean life.”

Mean Meaning Life

Author:Sissy Spacek

“Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.”

Mean Helping Feet

Author:Pope Francis

“I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.”

Mean Stars Natural Fades Parts Of Life

Author:Susan Sullivan

“The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.”

Mean Process Findings Who You Are Artwork

Author:Susan Sullivan

“All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.”

Ifs Want Kind Mean Audience Laughing Comedy Directors Tests Loud Screening

Author:Todd Solondz

“I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.”

People Want Mean Courses Sound Term Loss Nice Come Up Privacy Small Things Very Nice Anonymity Appreciative Nice People

Author:Todd Solondz

“I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.”

Kind Mean Certain My Own Novel Materials Directors Excited Genre Someday Conventions

Author:Todd Solondz

“I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!”

People Mean Has Beens Done Huge

Author:Zack Snyder

“I mean, like, I can go in a room and say, look, 'Watchmen' should be at least 15 minutes longer than 'Batman.' I mean, that's, like, any geek will tell you that.”

Should Looks Mean I Can Rooms Minutes Geek

Author:Zack Snyder

“I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.”

Thinking Knows Way Mean Important Ends Happens Reading Novel Middle Built Anna Predictability

Author:Scarlett Thomas

“I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.”

Mean Has Beens Enough Past Film Process Natural Lucky Let Me Producers Makers My Past

Author:Charlize Theron

“I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.”

Way Kind Mean Real Strong Real Life Very Strong Flashy

Author:Holland Taylor

“Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.”

Mean Facts Action Faces Evil Sin Decision Goodness Conscience Have Faith Our Actions Malice

Author:Pope Francis

“I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won't think twice.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Stills Goal Balls Stopping Think Twice

Author:John Terry

“Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.”

People Kind Mean Children Interesting Careers Land Appreciate Ducks Very Interesting Really Interesting Ups & Downs Posters Flopping

Author:Lea Thompson

“Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.”

Mean Important Awards Fascism Indonesia Slap Militarism

Author:Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.”

Mean Art Individual Born Fields Grew Genius Musician West Western Grass Soil Art Music

Author:Toru Takemitsu

“I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.”

Looks Mean Persons Said Kids My Own Figures Mirrors Sticks Dumb Justify Mean Person

Author:Uma Thurman

“Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?”

Mean Able Beats Austin

Author:Verne Troyer

“I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.”

Mean Speak Republican Ill

Author:Fred Upton

“Throughout my years of public service, I've listened to the voices of the gay and lesbian community, whether through whispered confidences or public declarations. I understand what it truly means to say that all people should be treated equally, and I'll always stand up for fair and equal treatment of gay and lesbian Americans.”

People Should Years Mean Voice Community Gay Equal Fairs Treated Treatment Declaration Public Service Equal Treatment

Author:Mark Udall

“I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.”

Ifs Mean Used Pieces Majors Percent Eight Legislation 1960s Filibuster

Author:Tom Udall

“If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.”

Ifs Mean Brain Intelligent Intelligence Smart People Smartness Active Minds Funniness

Author:Amber Valletta

“I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.”

Ifs Mean Shows Hours Flats Shrinks Fees Billing

Author:Bruce Vilanch

“That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.”

Kind Mean Vicious Schizophrenic Sids

Author:Don Van Vliet

“What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.”

Want Mean Doe Quality Immortality More Time Quality Time

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.”

Years Mean Government Parent Known Gone Army Department Great Depression Frugal

Author:Veronica Webb

“I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.”

People Knows Mean Said Team Inspire

Author:Alexander Wang

“Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.”

Writing Mean Character Action Turns Reading Imagination Lines Deals Fiction Paradox Fiction Writing

Author:Amy Waldman

“I mean, I do actually think there is a qualitative difference between aborting in the early part of the first trimester and in, you know, the middle or later part of the second trimester, in a way that you feel about it in that you grow attached.”

Thinking Knows Way Feels Firsts Mean Grows Differences Middle Qualitative

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.”

People Thinking Kind Mean Children Use Remember Lost Wish Terrible Lessons Punishment Absurd Instance My Children Be Kind Palms Sibling Tattooed

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.”

Want Firsts Mean Universe Ability Clinton Albums What You Want Solo

Author:Bernie Worrell

“I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.”

Want Mean Children Watches Protect Adults Programming Mature Protecting Children

Author:Burt Ward

“People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.”

People Mean Shows Certain Written New York Communication Shots Dialogue Accurate Stink

Author:Dick Wolf

“The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all time.”

People Knows Mean Song All Time Favorite Song

Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.”

Mean Different Beautiful Different Things Beautiful Words

Author:Jack White

“The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.”

Mean Doe Political Process Goal Challenges Struggle Pursuit Abandoned Ira Armed Struggle

Author:James T. Walsh

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