#seem

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anyone #anything #archetypal #breakfast #freedom

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#being done #connection #done #every #explained

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#doing #exercise #free #get #happen

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person. ↗

— Michael Palin

#doomed #explorer #i #i always #more

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#always #chance #effort #entirely #even

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#add #birth #comes #daughter #death

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#arbitrary #decided #i #know #more

You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#asking #bumped #certainly #directions #down

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.' ↗

— Trey Parker

#bad idea #cool #could #go #great

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#art form #chic #form #generation #generations