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I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

~Doug Liman

Topics: Am Contradictory Director Filmmaker Hollywood Independent Realize Sensibility Span I Am

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The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.

~E. L. Konigsburg

Topics: About Acceptance Asking Be Different Both Contradictory Different Else Essential Everyone Everyone Else Kids Problems Remain Same Same Things Things Two Want Wanted Write I Write

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Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Able Been Contradictory Divorced Explain Feel Giving Heart Ideas Just Language Mainly Mind Only Perfecting Read Reality Receiving See Something Tie Try Trying Very Way Which Write I See I Feel

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All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

~Edward Norton

Topics: All People Ambiguity Because Characters Contradictory Easily Fun Hard Impulses Like Paradoxical People Shades Who

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The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.

~Emily Martin

Topics: Because Condition Contradictory Give Good Imperative Like Must None Obtain Other Precious Profoundly Seemingly Sleep Up

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I always have sort of been someone who has contradictory parts, and I haven't tried to uncomplicate myself. I've sort of let things seem contradictory, and sometimes it really confuses people. I don't know if it's working all the time, but I'd rather do that than try to sell myself as one thing or another.

~Emily Ratajkowski

Topics: Always Another Been Confuses Contradictory Know Myself One Thing Parts People Rather Really Seem Sell Someone Sometimes Sort Than Thing Things Time Tried Try Who Working

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To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.

~Emma Goldman

Topics: American Chaos Character Contradictory Hash Ideas Indefinite Intellectual Methods Mind Most Movement Neither Nor Possible Radical Result Sad Sort Taste Uncertain Which

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Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay, you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But in the theater, by inventing various characters, you can. My characters are contradictory not only in their language but in their behavior as well.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Abandoned Am Because Behavior Characters Contradict Contradictions Contradictory Criticism Essay Full Inventing Language Only Perhaps Supposed Theater Various Well Write You Yourself I Am

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To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds - talents that are contradictory.

~Francois Truffaut

Topics: Almost Contradictions Contradictory Different Different Kinds Forced Kinds Many Must Surrounded Talents You

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Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Able Balancing Being Contradictory Establish Hand Means Must Operator Other Precise Rapport Seemingly Skills

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