Moment Quotes
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Then he smiled at me and for that moment, and just that moment, I forgave him everything—everything—because now I knew what joy looked like and I was part of it.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
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Makeup can help you capture a moment.
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There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism.
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The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
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I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.
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I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very problematic.
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As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
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To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.
Nastassja Kinski -
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.
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You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
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There is a moment in your story when you can pinpoint the exact time you fell in love, be it with a place or a person. I can remember both like it was yesterday.
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People automatically assume that because you're an actor, you're a blank canvas 24/7. But I can't wear what everyone else wears. If I went to an audition, I'd wear what the character would wear, but the moment I'm done with the audition or done filming, I go back into my high-waisteds.
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My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.
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But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.
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I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.
