Odd Quotes
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It's tough to make funny films. And the truth is, with this process, especially if you write your own movie, then you're giving three years of your life to it. And so, I just have to be sure that when I embark on it that I'm happy to think that in three years' time I'm going to be sitting in a room on the tenth floor of an odd office building at Ginsberg Libby talking about it. So I'm keen not to jump into it too quickly and just make sure it's something that I really want.
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Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.
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Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. Again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. We have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.
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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
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“We are aware that it is an odd thing.”
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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
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It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.
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Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.
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And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.
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He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one could be expelled without reasons having to be supplied. He had already decided to leave the club if the meetings should become all too boring. But how boring is boring?
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all.
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How odd Of God To choose The Jews.
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Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.
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When I was younger I always had a dark navy, black tie and everybody would look at me like it was odd, but now it is de rigueur. I'm sure it's my input.
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People who are considered scary or odd or even monsters are so often the people that just need love and someone to care for them.
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Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.
