Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.
When I was writing my first novel, ‘Elizabeth is Missing,’ I was writing the only novel I had ever written and writing about the only protagonist I’d ever written about. Because of this, I didn’t think of her as a construct. Maud was real.
You can’t recover memories of a missing event. That’s a fallacy.
Mum obviously did not earn much money to feed me and my siblings. She worked hard to raise us, but there was always something missing.
Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
In 2008, while I was shooting a TV show, a woman came all the way from Odisha to Baroda to meet me. It turned out she was newly married; she said she had run away and wanted to marry me! We had to call the local police, and it turned out her family had filed a missing person’s report.
I’ve always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something’s missing.
The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.
I had braces; I was lucky, ’cause I had some snaggle teeth. I always try and keep my retainer on me ’cause I’m paranoid about my teeth. It was run over by a car, so half of it’s missing, but it still works.
Wine culture is very white. It’s a fact. When you look at it from a cultural standpoint, you’re missing out on so many different cultural influences in America.
I just sort of feel like John Hughes movies are perfect, but they’re missing violence. If they just had some violence, they’d be perfect.
I just want to paint that picture of Chicago that everybody’s missing, and I just want to rap about it.
Most car advertising assumes that people have IQs that are missing a digit.
Adding salt to desserts helps to balance and pronounce flavors. Almost all of my desserts have salt in them. They don’t taste salty per se, but if I gave you two of the same item – one with salt and one without – side by side, you would realize something was missing.
As far as me being inspirational to other combat-wounded guys, I would say that it’s the opposite. To see guys at Walter Reed that I recovered with every day and they were missing every single one of their limbs – that is what I would say is inspiring.
In life, do you ever really know if you’re missing an opportunity? No, you really don’t.
I have no qualms with people who want to be vegetarians; it’s just foolish. They are missing out on the best things in life: meat, cheese, proper Christmas pudding.
That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.
I see some people stay in one place because it’s convenient or it’s comfortable. But they’re missing out on their passion.
I have already spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning alone, missing my children, and crying because I have no family nearby.
You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.
I saw the Kino print of ‘The Man From Beyond,’ but apparently a superior new print has been produced by Restored Serials. Maybe a few snippets of missing footage will close up some of the plot holes, but I have my doubts.
That is the one missing link in my life. I wish I had spent more time with my children.
Missing out an apostrophe or two does not make you an idiot. But equating party allegiance with nationhood certainly makes you a thug. And thugs don’t often notice that they’re thugs, usually because they’re also idiots.
Anyone who’s ever read the lyrics of an already cherished song has most likely encountered that hollow sensation of something missing, the absence of certain emotional integers. It can be like viewing a loved one’s X-rays.
I enjoyed being in California for a while. But that’s the thing about London: you can’t really shake it. I’ve always had the impression when I was in L.A. for long periods of time that simultaneously my life was happening somewhere else, and I’m missing it.
There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.
I’m terrified of missing my call time. I’ll check my alarm several times before I fall asleep.
Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.
Whenever senior players are missing, its ideal for youngsters to avail of these opportunities.
There aren’t any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there’s not much that’s missing.
The trick of Afrobeats is it doesn’t just move your upper body, it moves your hips as well, and I think that’s what people have been missing in popular music for a while. I think that’s what people need around the world.
Wall Street has come to America’s heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know?
I believe there is no dearth of talent in India. But what’s missing is the ability to work hard.
‘The Missing Picture’ came together slowly, after much provocation and by refusing different forms, until I finally found the right form.
On telly, there’s been a move towards entertainment – with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it’s all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what’s missing.
When I was about 9, my brother, who’s six years older than me, started getting guitar lessons, and I wouldn’t say that it inspired me to pick up an instrument: it was more me being like, ‘Well, if he’s getting guitar lessons, then so am I. I’m not missing out,’ type of thing.
There is an actor’s responsibility in presenting the emotional content of the lyrics to an audience. But whether you do that in a straightforward fashion or an ironic fashion or a blase fashion is all about opportunities, and singers are missing opportunities as artists if they don’t pay attention to the lyric.
There’s something missing in the music industry today… and it’s music. Songs you hear don’t last, it’s just product fed to you by the industry.
There’s always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.
You always know. You have basic needs, and when they aren’t met, your body sends signals. Hunger, loneliness, exhaustion, thirst, and fear are all signals that something is missing, and you need to act on it now.
I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
People expect to just hear something raunchy from a female – we’re missing meaningful messages as women. We don’t have enough stories.
Sometimes I think I missed out on things like travelling. I’d have been terrified of missing an audition. I didn’t start a family because that’s not something I take lightly. Acting meant so much to me.
When people ask what ‘American Pie’ is about, they’re missing the point. The song isn’t about the lines themselves – it’s about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn’t there.
I do not have to whine about missing the chance to play in a World Cup.
But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.
If you lose a parent, no matter at what age, every five or 10 years you have a different way of missing them and a different way of getting on with your life.
When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.
When I started ‘Still Missing,’ I had a few key plot points in mind, which I played around with mentally for a couple of months, then one day I just started writing. Not having an outline led to some cool plot twists, but also many rewrites! A lot of the plotting happened on subsequent drafts.
Missing the 1978 World Cup made Maradona an even better player, as he showed on the following year at the Youth World Cup, and he never looked back.
Questions matter. In business, remarkable performers are brilliant at getting to the right question: the one that speeds them to the place they need to get to and offers them the missing piece they need to find.
I found a ‘lost’ manuscript called the Book of Soyga that had once belonged to Queen Elizabeth I’s court astrologer, John Dee, in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Everybody thought it was the missing key to Dee’s interest in magic. Of course, it wasn’t really lost. It was there, in the catalog.
For me, the fans missing me and wanting to see me on TV is very important, but the business end of it also has to be right.
