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Quotes About Complexity

I certainly tried to talk about less complex things, but I've had to accept that it's just not what I do. That isn't to say that my shows are depressing - they aren't. At least, I hope they aren't! The problem I have with stories about happy things is that they don't require any skill from a comic - they just repeat the details verbatim.
~ Jon Richardson
While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.
~ Dweezil Zappa
Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but it's the same skills.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.
~ Charlotte Rampling
A face isn't an organ, like a liver or a heart. A face is muscles, nerves, bones, and skin. A face is more like a hand or a foot.
~ Jeanne Marie Laskas
Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.
~ Cory Doctorow
When people think what is the most simple sort of human, it's a white man, and anything else that is added to that complicates it for people. It comes with all kinds of meanings and connotations. If they have a different skin color, that comes with a connotation. If they're a woman, 'Oh well, what do I feel about that?'
~ Lisa Hanawalt
Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.
~ Danny Huston
It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.
~ Martin Amis
I love people who are complicated, and I love playing people who are complicated.
~ Michael Marisi Ornstein
The simple and most complex answer is love.
~ Nora Roberts
I love everything about you that hurts.
~ Patrick Marber
Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.
~ Robert Benton
She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It's hard to love a woman and do anything.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.
~ Kiera Cass, The Elite
That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.
~ Kathryn Stockett, The Help
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
~ Jodi Picoult
The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.
~ Elizabeth Scott
One hates a person for the same reason one loves him
~ Russell Banks
Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn't understand.
~ Shah Rukh Khan
One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.
~ Alain de Botton
She didn't know that there was more of me, she'd have to learn to love all four of me.
~ Alice Cooper
What a tangle love is.
~ Alyson Noel