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Quotes About Contained

I would direct TV. That's a little different. It's more of a contained world as a director. When you're doing a film you get on the rollercoaster, you put the safety bar down and then you're gone. And it's hard. It's hard, too, as a parent, I think, because the hours are so long. It's hard.
~ Cheryl Hines
His resentment of his wife, Caroline, was moderate and well contained.
~ Jonathan Franzen
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
~ Bruce Springsteen
It's as if the endless labour of achieving consensus maska a constant inner violence - or, it might perhaps be better to say, is in fact the process by which that inner violence is measured and contained - and it is precisely this, and the resulting tangle of moral contradiction, which is the primal fornt of social creativity.
~ David Graeber
When a government official says a problem has been "contained," pay no attention.
~ Seth Klarman
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?
~ Alexandre Dumas
I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articulate and quick to defend, if needed. They all seemed to have this contained sitting posture. The legs, if they weren't crossed at right angles, tended to be close over the knee, their hands put together.
~ Damian Lewis
Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.
~ Max Beckmann
And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.
~ William Scranton
I think there is a certain gravitas about me. My energy can be very big and yet contained.
~ Elizabeth Marvel
I love bags, and little bags within bags. Everything is contained.
~ Reem Acra
In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.
~ Claire Messud
I like to findwhat's not foundat once, but lieswithin something of another naturein repose, distinct.
~ Denise Levertov
I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.
~ Ben Bernanke
I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion... it was much more graceful and contained than that.
~ Michelle Yeoh
You can't call ISIS the JV team. You can't say that they're contained. Sure, we've had some success, but we have not defeated them.
~ Ron Johnson
Like the number of apples Contained within a single apple seed Each opportunity that we seize Contains an untold number of benefits.
~ Rick Irving
A great ox stands on my tongue.
~ Aeschylus
Your soul animates your body, but is not contained
~ Alan Cohen
I am not man so much as syndrome; as a voice that bellows in the human heart. I am rain. I cannot be contained
~ Alan Moore
She was a woman who had clearly had practice in keeping her thoughts to herself.
~ Andrew Klavan
With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.
~ Bruce Greenwood
'Leaving Las Vegas' is a relationship; 'Dead Man Walking' is a relationship, and they're very contained movies. They're compressed and not in wide open spaces all over the place.
~ Michael Cimino
Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
~ Kate Christensen