Shane Carruth Quotes

It's interesting because I don't ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers.

Shane Carruth

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• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Three

• Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Live
  • Community
  • Communication

• A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Blood

• Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Music
  • Career
  • Respect

• Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Wonder
  • Stevie

• Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Way
  • Decisions
  • Policy

• My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Real
  • Style
  • Yourself

• I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

  

  Gary Chapman
  • World
  • Nature
  • Today

• My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Bad
  • Thought

• The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Always
  • Everyday
  • Miracle

• When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading, I'm afraid to interrupt her, even though she sits there specifically so that she may be interrupted, even though being interrupted for reasons like this by people like me is her very job.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • People
  • May
  • She

• We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Day
  • Nuclear Weapons

• It is less than four years since cohomological methods (i.e. methods of Homological Algebra) were introduced into Algebraic Geometry in Serre's fundamental paper

  

  Alexander Grothendieck

• My interest in theater really began in the '70s when American realism wasn't really in favor. I really dreaded going into a play that had a toaster that worked. I just didn't want to see that.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • American

• The military is a discrete entity. Then they come back, and they're such a small percentage of the population, and they can't really - it's hard for them to talk to civilians.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Small
  • Military

• Do you have to have a reason for loving?

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

  

  David Crystal
  • People
  • Choices
  • Popular

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• I buy hats like women buy shoes. I have well over 150.

  

  Vinnie Jones
  • Shoes
  • Wells
  • Hats

• Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Marriage

• It has to be really interesting for me to perform the same role for 365 days non-stop. It becomes taxing for an actor to perform the same character for 12 hours every day, and then, after a point, there's no growth.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Stop

• It's interesting because I don't ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers.

  

  Shane Carruth
  • Interesting
  • Easy
  • Answers