Adam Curtis Quotes
Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories, and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated.Adam Curtis
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
Samantha Bee -
Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
Nancy Pelosi -
The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.
Wadah Khanfar -
I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
Octavia E. Butler -
Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.
Dan Pink -
I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
R. Kelly
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I love coming of age stories that have struggle.
Aaron Paul -
I'm not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods when I've sowed some wild oats, no doubt about it. And I can party with some of the heavyweights. There are some stories about me that, yeah, where there's smoke there's fire. But sometimes the smoke is just smoke.
Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs -
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
Maya Angelou -
If you can't get rich dealing with politicians, there's something wrong with you.
Donald Trump -
I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.
Odilon Redon -
My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.
Barry Hannah
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
Patrick Ness -
The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
Andrew Solomon -
When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me
Ang Lee -
They [my stories] evolve. If they're tightly constructed, it's because they're revised constantly as I move forward each day. That's where the structure inheres. It's all organic.
T. C. Boyle -
I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories. On one of our first nights together I woke up apologizing for my snoring and he pulled out two earplugs he had worn to bed so he could hear what I was saying.
Amy Poehler -
Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? The White House by the script.
Keith Olbermann
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Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.
Gary Cooper -
we were investing all our thoughts on what could possibly come next for the Bugatti brand, and we don’t think that an SUV would be the right solution for us, and I repeated this several times. It’s not the SUV, and it’s definitely not the limousine.
Stephan Winkelmann -
I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education.
Ibrahim Hooper -
I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
Wallace Shawn -
Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories, and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated.
Adam Curtis