Shane Carruth Quotes

I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you're providing subtextual exploration and things that are deeply layered, you're obligated to not say things out loud.

Shane Carruth

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• In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Life
  • Great
  • Ideas

• As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Song
  • Hate
  • Sad

• Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas. The conclusion seems inescapable.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Ideas
  • Actions
  • Conclusion

• I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go crazy if I don't do it.

  

  Karen O
  • Myself
  • Crazy
  • Exploration

• I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Hate
  • Best

• Kids hate anyone who is different.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Hate

• We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Live
  • Society
  • Me

• I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Ideas
  • Opinion
  • New York

• The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Where

• I'm sassy, even though I hate that word! I'm sensitive and cry real easily.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Real
  • Hate
  • Cry

• I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Small
  • Me
  • Ideas

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was a little before my time and I think it was sort of grappling with these intellectual ideas that were a little advanced for my young mind. At the time. But now I have a much deeper appreciation for it.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• I hate the past - especially my own past.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Past
  • Hate
  • Own

• Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Ideas

• Expose yourself to the products and promotions of other manufacturers, and your own field of new ideas will greatly increase.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Ideas
  • Yourself
  • New Ideas

• What is there to say? They are my friends. I would do it again, over and over - for I hate cruelty and intolerance.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Friends
  • Hate

• The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Ideas
  • Adopt
  • Idiotic

• This is my question, for life: have we retired the phrase, 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me'? Is it legal for me to say, 'I endorse hate speech, I don't give a fuck'? I want hate speech. Why can't I hate you...in speech?

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Life
  • Why
  • May

• I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Family
  • Think
  • Early

• Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.

  

  Peter Welch
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Star

• I think I still have [commemorative coin ] somewhere. Why was this given to me? I think every child in the country must have received one [ from Queen's Silver Jubilee]. That's the last time that I recall something of an innocent, more-or-less unquestioning monarchist patriotism in Britain.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Time
  • Country
  • Children

• My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • World
  • Parents
  • Amazing

• I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you're providing subtextual exploration and things that are deeply layered, you're obligated to not say things out loud.

  

  Shane Carruth
  • Hate
  • Ideas
  • Stories