Specific Quotes

I was born in Brazil and grew up in the ’70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to learn to communicate in a very specific way – in a sort of a semiotic black market. You couldn’t really say what you wanted to say; you had to invent ways of doing it. You didn’t trust information very much.

Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they’re doing something very active.

My fragrance is rose and amber, and I was just very specific. A lot of what I’ve done, at the stages I’ve done it, I’ve been a little naive, which brought with it a kind of charm. I did Stella a while ago. It’s now a bit of a classic.

It’s funny, when you have a theme so particular to cows – or it could be anything like hair or nails – when you’re rapping about a specific thing, you can have more punchlines about it.

Twitter‘s more fast-paced. Instagram, it’s more, like, lifestyle and posting very specific, cool pictures.

I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I’d audition for comedies and think, ‘I can’t pull this off.’

The idea that one might use art for ‘instrumental‘ reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural elite, who contend that it’s not a pill, that it shouldn’t be asked to perform some specific function, especially something as egocentric as to ‘cheer you up’ or to ‘make you a more empathetic person.’

I’ve always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.

I don’t write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

My life hasn’t been conventional and it hasn’t been linear. I’ve had to make it up as I’ve gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don’t accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it’s up to you to work out where you’re going and to create your own specific rules and goals.

I’m not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. There’s good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking water is polluted, it can be hard to pinpoint the source of the contamination.

There’s a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I’m much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven‘t taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven’t been in a blockbuster.

There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.

I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text.

I’m an artist that’s attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

Working with Lasse Hallstroem was like a rollercoaster, because he doesn’t have one specific vision. It changes daily, or it’s always evolving.

We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person’s debt to society.

I don’t write about anything I don’t want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much that I chose to. I have been asked to write songs about specific things, and I’ve always been able to come up with the goods.

I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it’s not censorship.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.

While men’s rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women‘s equal rights aren’t mentioned.

Most superheroes are painted with a specific moral objective that makes them who they are. And that moral objective influences everything they do, so there’s an expectation for what you’re going to see out of a certain character.

I don’t like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners‘ interpretation.

I’m going to be 50 soon. I’m single, I’m looking for something meaningful. By the time you’ve been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can’t put up with.

I am a grown man who is an entertainer with a specific type of humour and if you don’t like it, that’s okay, I owe you nothing.

Once I discovered the theater at Santa Clara and once I got into the theater program, I never got into specific criminal justice studies.

The fear of vomiting, which for me is one of the most original and most acute of my fears, is actually fairly common. Emetophobia, it’s called, and by some estimates, it’s the fifth most common specific phobia.

Older audiences are hard to win over. They’re very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

I have quite a rich inner life, and I’m constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven’t found it yet in acting. When you’re playing a character, you’re only going to find outlets for very specific parts of your inner world.

In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to investigate how the highly specific response properties of cortical cells emerged during postnatal development.

My mum, she has a very specific way of mixing bourgeois and hippie. She doesn’t wear a lot of make-up, but she always has to wear glasses, and she has this huge collection of glasses. And no rules.

I have something called endometriosis, and I was told by my gynecologist that I needed to go on a specific diet if I didn’t want to have any more surgery.

I came in with a very specific idea about what a Doctor Strange movie should be, which was rooted in the comics, and I thought it should be as weird and as visually ambitious compared to modern comic book movies as the comic was when it showed up in the ’60s compared to other comic books at the time.

There are so many books and movies I like; I never mention specific ones.

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don’t approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

Sometimes it’s not even a role that’s specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it’s something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it’s nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I’m all over it.