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I would never get married in a conventional way; I'd have the 'Curb' music as the union music. -- Annabelle Wallis
I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to. -- Eric Burdon
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them. -- Ray McKinnon
I think politics is a higher build in life. You know? If you diffuse under normal, common sense of a story, you make it political. If you choose a conventional way for a story, or refuse to use the conventional way, you make it political. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me. -- Alan Cumming
For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14. -- Linda Hunt
When you are shooting in a conventional way, you put nets around yourself. It's very hard to fall and hit the ground. You can always manipulate things to make it not embarrassing. If the scene is a little bit bad, you can polish it or even take it out. You can hide your mistakes. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way. -- Kat Edmonson
We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We have a very specific pattern of ties, and they have a particular shape and structure that is encoded in our genes. It means that human beings have evolved to live their lives embedded in social networks. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. -- Sam Walton
Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional. -- Vladimir Nabokov
The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom. -- Larry Ellison
Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way. -- Paul Fussell
One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be. -- Henry Ford
Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better. -- Reggie Fils-Aime
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking. -- Victor Davis Hanson
To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad decisions take over. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with it. -- Solange nicole
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world. -- William Kentridge
Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery. -- Gabrielle Roth
Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. -- Sam Walton
I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class. -- Mike Leigh
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