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“And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.”

Believe Wells Soul Light Pain Fighting Left Rooms Ignorance Shapes Late Weight My Soul Awake Dull Too Late Subtle Pulling Blissful Ignorance

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“The group-effort sound in recording of Sea Lion is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. Theres a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.”

People Real Energy Sound Rooms Effort Groups Sea Like You Train Lions Group Effort

Author:Feist

“Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.”

Children Self Reading Rooms Scene Setting Settings Bores Indulgence Showing Off Self Indulgence

Author:Mark Haddon

“One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.”

People Want Writing Play Together Rooms Excuse Tricks Hardest Tension

Author:Adam Rapp

“Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously resist explaining why the material is so moving.”

Moving Given Rooms Emotion Pieces Emotional Materials Reader Explaining

Author:William Zinsser

“Tears came to my eyes when I read of a mere boy in one of our eastern cities who noticed a vagrant asleep on a sidewalk and who then went to his own room, retrieved his own pillow, and placed it beneath the head of that one whom he knew not. Perhaps there came from the precious past the welcome words: 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me' (Matt. 25:40).”

Done Eye Past Rooms Cities Boys Tears Mere Welcome Eastern Pillow Brethren Sidewalk Vagrants

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and looked out of the window at the stars. I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I've never wanted to be an astronaut because of the helmets. If I were up there on the moon, or by the Milky Way, I'd want to feel the stars round my head. I'd want them in my hair the way they are in paintings of the gods. I'd want my whole body to feel the space, the empty space and points of light. That's how dancers must feel, dancers and acrobats, just for a second, that freedom.”

Ifs Way Want Feels Book Whole Body Light Wanted Stars Space Rooms Painting Hair Bed Moon Window Empty Lays Rounds Dancer Astronaut Helmet Empty Space Milky Way Points Of Light Bed Time

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.”

Way Given Rooms Huge Abuse Scales Introduction Civilisation Lament

Author:Roy Harper

“A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past-are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the erotic feelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance.”

People Feelings Past Rooms Cities Fire Distance Photograph Woods Absence Landscape Erotic Tokens Unattainable Pseudo Reverie Desirability Incitement

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“If you got up this morning and had fruits for breakfast, it was probably picked by the bent back of an immigrant worker. If you slept in a hotel or motel of the nation, you probably had your room done by an immigrant worker.”

Ifs Done Nations Rooms Morning Fruit Workers Hotel Immigrants Breakfast Bent Your Room Motels Immigrant Workers

Author:Bob Menendez

“Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.”

Has Beens Rooms Written Chairs

Author:Alan Garner

“I'm so grateful for Living the Questions. These progressive voices offer less rigid and more expansive approaches to Christian faith, and make room for people who practice critical thinking and question the gatekeepers. They help us see that questioning the gatekeepers is exactly what Jesus was all about.”

People Thinking Helping Christian Jesus Voice Rooms Practice Offers Approach Grateful Critical Progressive Questioning Critical Thinking Christian Faith So Grateful Gatekeepers

Author:Brian D. McLaren

“What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!”

Night Rooms Findings Temptation Tenderness Forbidden Dressings Gowns Lurking

Author:Wilkie Collins

“Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.”

Men Stills Evil Rooms Arise

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Ends Film Simple Answers Rooms Entertainment Deny Cynical Viewers

Author:Michael Haneke

“You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.”

Book Rooms Library

Author:Joanna Trollope

“A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a cottage; one that had gone on for twenty-seven years was a huge and rambling mansion. There were bound to be crannies and storage spaces, most of them dusty and abandoned, some containing a few unpleasant relics you would just as soon you hadn't found. But that was no biggie. You either threw those relics out or took them to Goodwill.”

Source: A Good Marriage

“I know we can fix our problems. When there are people in the room who care more about doing the job they were elected to do than they worry about winning reelection, it is possible to work together, achieve principal compromise, and get results for the people who give us these jobs in the first place.”

People Knows Giving Firsts Problem Care Together Jobs Winning Rooms Results Worry Achieve Compromise Working Together Principal Who Cares Reelection

Author:Chris Christie

“There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.”

Ifs School Rooms Degrees Capable Pursue Nursing

Author:Jeff Merkley

“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.”

People Rooms Doubt Progress Certainty

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Is there any more Room for me in those Jeans.”

Rooms Jeans

Author:Ginuwine

“This is my sixth year now. I've never seen this many all-stars in the locker room at the same time.”

Years Stars Rooms Lockers Locker Room All Stars

Author:Adrian Wilson

“Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children packing up their rooms and on parents struggling to find a temporary roof is a deep one.”

“Media were never allowed into an Australian dressing room until I became skipper. I changed that and invited them in at the close of play each day, thereby confirming for many administrators they had appointed a madman as captain.”

Play Rooms Media Changed Each Day Captains Invited Dressings Australian Madmen Commentators Administrators Dressing Rooms Skipper

Author:Richie Benaud

“What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.”

Sometimes Kids Film Moving Rooms Theatre Pretending Metaphorical Being A Kid

Author:Mark Haddon

“Being a quarterback, the way I believe is there's always so much room to improve. Any little detail. I always cut up the film and try to watch what I can improve on, whatever little detail it is.”

Way Trying Believe Littles I Can Film I Believe Rooms Watches Cutting Details Quarterback

Author:Russell Wilson

“Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.”

World Enough Rooms Sky Flower Butterfly Flyers

Author:Trina

“I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?”

Knows Needs Looks Doe Important Order Asks Imagination Rooms Silence Students Music Is Ideals Important Things Chaos Release Serenity Silence Is My Imagination

Author:Toni Morrison

“I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.”

Ifs Years Rooms Twenties Newspapers Indifferent

Author:Jean Cocteau

“You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.”

Knows Years Dream Rooms Wonderful Goes On Clothes Picks Hollywood Dressings Dressing Rooms Wonderful Places

Author:Larry Hagman

“He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if reporters didn't overreact to a politician's telling the very same joke they routinely hear and tell in the city room, we'd get more humor.”

Ifs Rooms Cities Trouble Politician Jokes Likes Reporters American Politics

Book:Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush

Source: Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush

“...it is the Far Right today that establishes the terms of the nuclear debate. And in this context, in a room ringing with hysterical pleas on behalf of Reagan's eerie laser-beam technology, the MacBundys of the world seem eminently, refreshingly sane.”

World Seems Today Term Rooms Technology Nuclear Debate Sane Behalf American Politics Beam Hysterical Lasers Eerie

Author:David Talbot

“The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.”

War Peace Rooms Soldier Sophisticated Temperature Weaponry

Author:G. Gordon Liddy

“When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.”

Firsts War Moving Peace Rooms Army Active Chairs

Author:Robert Lembke

“We may bend sometimes, but we don't break. There's a lot of character in that room”

May Sometimes Character Rooms Break Championship Nba Championships

Author:David Blatt

“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.”

Men Belief Black Dark Rooms He Man Cat Blind Philosopher Superstitions Theologian Blind Man Dark Room Black Cat

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as no empirical law can ever be, philosophers have discovered that they are not absolutely novel - instead, they are tautological.”

Ifs May Law Rooms Results Novel Mathematics Philosopher Mathematical Exception

Author:Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

“There's always room for improvement. I incorporate the lessons I learned from my mistakes and move forward.”

Moving Rooms Mistake Lessons Improvement Moving Forward My Mistakes Always Room For Improvement Room For Improvement

Author:Jillian Michaels

“My thing was always more character-driven comedies, not sketch comedy - not that there's not room for both or one isn't enjoyable, just my personal taste, I like movies that comedy comes from out of flaws of people, things that are uncomfortable, out of tragedy.”

People Character Rooms Comedy Taste Tragedy Driven Uncomfortable Flaws Enjoyable Sketch Comedy Personal Taste

Author:Vince Vaughn

“Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.”

Want Rooms Talking Four Equal Percent Silent Access Honestly Managers Killers Sixty Mentoring

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“I remember doing one day of work, and I was so good I ended up doing 25 days on that movie. And all of it ended up on the editing room floor. That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn't necessarily mean that you're in it.”

Firsts Mean Remember Rooms Lessons One Day Hollywood Editing

Author:Eddie Griffin

“When I started in television, it was brand new. It was the miracle over in the corner of your room. Now the audience has seen every story line. People have heard every joke. They can predict the plot almost before a show starts. That's a hard, sophisticated audience to reach.”

People Hard Stories Shows Lines Rooms Audience Heard Television Jokes Miracle Corners Brands Plot Sophisticated Brand New Your Room

Author:Betty White

“I had no idea that, when you audition for television or movies, you go to a big building - like, an office building - and you walk in the room, and everybody, I assumed, was smarter than me and better than me, and there's actors you recognize. I once fainted at an audition.”

Ideas Bigs Actors Walks Rooms Television Building Office No Idea Smarter Auditions Office Buildings

Author:Kurt Fuller

“That was exactly why people didn't want to give us any kind of life, because we were threatening their status quo, and they just didn't want to have room for girls playing rock 'n' roll. It bothered them. First, people just tried to get around it by saying, "Oh, wow, isn't that cute? Girls playing rock 'n' roll!," and when we said, "Yeah, right, this isn't a phase; it's what we want to do with our lives," it became, "Oh! You must be a bunch of sluts. You dykes, you whores." That's what it became. Then it became a name-calling contest.”

People Want Giving Firsts Kind Said Girl Names Rooms Our Lives Rocks Calling Yeah Bunch Cute Wow Rock N Roll Phases Threatening Contests Status Quo Bothered Name Calling Cute Girl Dykes

Author:Joan Jett

“I love being in an arena that has like 10,000 people and huge crowds. I want to do a show at like the Viper room so badly. Like go up on stage and thrash myself around, go jump into the crowd. You can effing swear, get drunk on stage and do whatever you want basically.”

People Want Shows Love Is Rooms Stage Huge Crowds Drunk Swear Arena Do Whatever You Want Vipers

Author:Avril Lavigne

“Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms which are to do with prayer. The mystical strain is the strain whereby the whole day can be given over to prayer through what we call lectio divina, prayerful reading of Scripture, through practice of meditation of when one uses the imagination and the intellect with respect to images, and then finally, and most difficult of all, contemplation, where one empties the mind of all images and all ideas, all concepts, in order to be completely attentive to God.”

“I love the auditioning process. I love working with the technical guys. I absolutely love the editing room. That was completely fascinating to me, working with an editor in crafting the thing into something you had in your head.”

Guy Process Rooms Fascinating Editors Editing

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I don't think my acting was ever bad; I always knew that I could do it. But when you go to audition for a drama, they're very serious in the room, and I was used to being kind of goofy and having small talk.”

Thinking Kind Used Rooms Acting Serious Drama Be Kind Auditions Goofy Small Talk

Author:Mary Lynn Rajskub

“When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.”

World Ideas Rooms Roommate Dorms Dorm Rooms

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you want the acting to be as efficient as possible on the set, and you have enough coverage to manipulate the rhythm in the editing room, and then in the editing room you want to find the quickest possible version, even if it's a leisurely paced film. I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.”

Ifs Want Writing Mean Enough Film Three Rooms Acting Materials Scripts Versions Rhythm Shooting Efficient Filmmaking Editing Harvest Manipulate Coverage

Author:Alexander Payne

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