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Self-Contained Quotes

We’ve collected the best Self-Contained Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Evan Williams, Jon Favreau, Edward Zwick, Shekhar Kapur, Jonathan Miles. Use them as an inspiration.

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A key element of Web blogs is the community element. Most blogs are not self-contained; they are highly dependent on linking to each other.
Evan Williams
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You have an hour and a half or two hours – maybe two and a half hours – in a movie, and it has to be a self-contained three-act structure. It’s like a rock and roll song. Certain things have to happen for it to be a toe-tapper and get people excited, leaving the theater.
Jon Favreau
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I think there is a very powerful wish that we all have of being self-contained and having sort of opted out or choosing to remove ourselves from society and to have no ties and no obligations, and even no possessions. To be free in a particular way.
Edward Zwick
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I am not possessive at all. In every relationship I have had, the girl has left me. And the fundamental complaint has been that I am self-contained. I am just comfortable with myself and am always on an adventure.
Shekhar Kapur
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Poems, unlike songs, are written to be read and, thus, come equipped with their own rhythms and melodies; they’re self-contained entities, the whole shebang.
Jonathan Miles
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So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?
Stephen Hawking
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I’ve been clean and sober for 17 years. I am a control freak and must have a plan for everything I do now. I am also self-contained and happy.
Jason Bonham
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I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.
Jenny Offill
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I don’t have many friends. It’s not because I’m a misanthrope. It’s because I’m reserved. I’m self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I’m writing my books.
Ian Rankin
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Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there’s ever anything that deals with a character‘s personal life, you don’t have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don’t have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.
Christopher Meloni
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Ronald Reagan was so self-contained and impenetrable that his official biographer was practically driven mad trying to figure him out.
Charles Krauthammer
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I take a lot of satisfaction in trying to make my land as self-contained as possible, its own little mini environment. Minimal outputs; minimal inputs.
John Grogan
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China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that… I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they’d just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They’re very self-contained.
Damon Albarn
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God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.
Swami Sivananda
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
Maajid Nawaz
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Every single song on ‘Torches’ was a little self-contained pop song, so there wasn’t any fat on the songs; there wasn’t a lot to cut.
Mark Foster
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You really want some natural way for people to get Bitcoins, as part of their paycheck or some other activity so they can turn around and spend them. It’s much better if the Bitcoin economy is a self-contained thing.
Gavin Andresen
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I have total respect for the self-contained rock artist. Whether you’re dealing with Jerry Garcia or Lou Reed or Patti Smith or a Whitney or an Aretha, they know what they want with their career.
Clive Davis
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Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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I sort of try to write everything for me. I’m a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don’t remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I’m trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they’re accessible to everyone.
Norm MacDonald
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I love doing stand-up. It’s so self-contained – you go there, you do it, you go home – but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.
Jo Brand
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I’m quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I’ve coined a rather hideous word for it – a paraquel.
Charles Palliser