Quotes with trapped

  • If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

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  • Bruce Lee Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
    Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Caroline B. Cooney If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
    Caroline B. Cooney
    American author
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  • Bee Wilson One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • James Baldwin People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bill Pullman Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.
    Bill Pullman
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Barry McCaffrey The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Audre Lorde There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Tennessee Williams We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Anna Freud We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Aeschylus You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Greg Anderson The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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