#complex

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences. ↗

— James Buchan

#belief #cannot #city #complex #consequences

There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities. ↗

— Andrew Fastow

#complex #find #look #more #opportunities

It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#because #complex #levels #narrative #other

O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#challenge #characters #complex #deeply #extent

We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought complex concepts down to earth. I will miss coming here every week. ↗

— Miguel Ferrer

#brought #clear #coming #complex #concepts

The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them. ↗

— Sally Field

#characters #complex #get #had #haven

For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them must stand something stable to which he relates them; specialised because since he is a single person with one sensibility the aspects of life in which he can believe with conviction are strictly limited ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#duality #joseph-conrad #writing-craft #life

Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#fool #genius #simplicity #simplicity

Can we please focus? We are supposed to be professionals." Holly said. "Not me!" said Orion cheerily, "I'm just a Teenager with hormones running wild and may I say, young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#atlantis-complex #eoin-colfer #orion-fowl #focus

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world. ↗

— Christian Bale

#backpack #been #bit #breath #change