Top 81 Pare Quotes
#1. When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#2. Pare down to the essence, but don't remove the poetry.
Leonard Koren
#3. There are a limited number of things we can be personal with. This understanding can bring us to pare down to what we really need, and to let go of that which we cannot hold in caring awareness.
We may learn that having too much can be another form of poverty.
Gunilla Brodde Norris
#4. Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial to the poem.
Harley King
#5. With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.
Melissa Rosenberg
#6. It was nice, though, to have the long term benefit to be able to pare away those things and eventually make the character my own and put my own unique stamp.
Michael Shanks
#7. In poetry we pare down our thoughts into their most graceful shapes, like minimalist sculptures.
Patricia Robin Woodruff
#8. I shall arm myself with a knife" said Mr. Hale: "the days of eating fruit so primitively as you describe are over with me. I must pare it and quarter it before I can enjoy it.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#9. What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything down and find the kind of essence, the skeleton if you like, which can then be fleshed out by performance and cinematography.
Salman Rushdie
#10. Throw away too much of your past and you abandon the person who walked those days. When you pare away at yourself you can reinvent, that's true enough, but such whittling always seems to reveal a lesser man, and promises to leave you with nothing at the end.
Mark Lawrence
#11. Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.
Mark Lawrence
#12. It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.
Nancy Garden
#13. Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write a thank you note, and it's five sentences - that's me. I like to pare away words because I don't want to waste anyone's time.
Bill Callahan
#14. It takes cognitive toil and literary dexterity to pare an argument to its essentials, narrate it in an orderly sequence, and illustrate it with analogies that are both familiar and accurate.
Steven Pinker
#15. Sun worship is fairly simple. There's no mystery, no miracles, no pageantry, no one asks for money, there are no songs to learn, and we don't have a special building where we all gather once a week to pare compare clothing.
George Carlin
#16. I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.
Lydia Davis
#17. You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one is either being useful or beautiful, but hopefully both.
Caitlin Moran
#18. My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.
Roger Zelazny
#19. There is a great number of noblemen among you that are themselves as idle as drones, that subsist on other men's labour, on the labour of their tenants, whom, to raise their revenues, they pare to the quick.
Thomas More
#20. I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.
Mira Sorvino
#21. I'm interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what's left? It's like I'm trying to describe the soul to an alien.
Shea Hembrey
#22. Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.
Liz Phair
#23. It's easy to make something with a million style-lines. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve, and that's how I approach design - very minimal, pare it down, perfect.
Keith Michael
#24. In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off. If you do that, do so with your strategy in mind. The worst mistake is to cut across the board. Instead, reconnect and recommit to a clear strategy that will distinguish yourself from others.
Michael Porter
#25. Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.
Kurt Loder
#26. And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which just - basic ideas which just seem to work for you over and over again.
Robert Barry
#27. Only to have a grief
equal to all these tears!
There's not a sob in my chest.
Dry hearted Peer Gynt
I pare away, no hero,
merely a cook.
Adrienne Rich
#28. The advice I would give myself is: "Don't date that guy, don't drink that, go right home, get a good night's sleep."
Jessica Pare
#29. I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.
Jessica Pare
#30. I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.
Jessica Pare
#32. My own beauty routine is influenced pretty heavily from my 'Mad Men' routine. If I'm in the series of work, it's hard to see myself without eyelashes every day.
Jessica Pare
#33. Profits are what you make when not working.
Michael Pare
#34. I don't know if you know this - I don't drive a stick. I mean, I barely drive my automatic. I get to work and everything, but I'm not any kind of driving prodigy.
Jessica Pare
#35. My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors.
Jessica Pare
#36. Believe me, when I finish shooting 'Mad Men,' there's a huge chunk of time where I have a really hard time leaving my house without fake lashes on. Which is a complex because I'm not very good at applying fake lashes.
Jessica Pare
#37. An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.
Jessica Pare
#38. One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.
Michael Pare
#39. In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.
Jessica Pare
#40. Of course I'm a feminist ... if you're not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you're a fascist.
Jessica Pare
#41. I used to listen to the soundtrack for the movie 'Tank Girl' all the time. It was really good.
Jessica Pare
#42. It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.
Michael Pare
#43. Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech.
Michael Pare
#44. I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.
Jessica Pare
#45. I'm reading a lot of scripts. It makes my career decisions in that sense much the same way I consume media.
Jessica Pare
#46. I'm at the age when my friends have started having kids, and when my first good friend had a baby, the first time I picked up her daughter I spoke in French. I didn't even think about it. It just came out. Maybe it's because it's my mother tongue?
Jessica Pare
#47. One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.
Jessica Pare
#48. I can cry all day long - that's easy for me.
Jessica Pare
#49. If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy.
Michael Pare
#51. I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.
Jessica Pare
#52. I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.
Jessica Pare
#53. And, of course, all of my friends and family are so excited because they feel like Montreal is being represented on Mad Men.
Jessica Pare
#54. I think I approach my choices much the way I approach the way I consume movies and TV and stuff. I like everything, and sometimes I'll feel like a horror movie, and sometimes I'll just feel like an episode of 'Hoarders.'
Jessica Pare
#55. I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.
Jessica Pare
#56. I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.
Jessica Pare
#57. I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.
Jessica Pare
#58. Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.
Michael Pare
#59. The guiding principle of ruling elites was
and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.
Michael Pare
#60. The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state.
Michael Pare
#61. I drive past the Mad Men billboard every day and I can't believe I'm on that show.
Jessica Pare
#62. I'm thinking of putting together an all-star band. I definitely have a bit of a rock fantasy.
Jessica Pare
#63. I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.
Jessica Pare
#64. Acting is what I chose to do. It's what I feel I need to do.
Jessica Pare
#65. I do get scared of the dentist, so a drive-through dentist might make me feel more at home. If I got to stay in my car.
Jessica Pare
#66. I don't mind auditioning. Sometimes, I think it's necessary.
Jessica Pare
#67. I love acting. I love what I do. I am absolutely filled every day with gratitude that I get to do it.
Jessica Pare
#68. I love Jon Hamm. I'm so lucky to get to work with him and work so closely with him.
Jessica Pare
#69. The real danger we face is not from terrorism but what is being done under the pretext of fighting it.
Michael Pare
#70. I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower.
Jessica Pare
#71. There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real instruments in music again. I think people want plot, story and characters. Those are more important than having a big star.
Jessica Pare
#72. I'm a huge Marlene Dietrich fan. She's got this raunchy kind of strength. It would be hard to find a man who could come up with something hard for her to handle. She's seen it all and done it all.
Jessica Pare
#73. Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.
Michael Pare
#74. Honey is hydrating and antiseptic. It really clears your skin, and it's moisturizing. You can use it every day if you want. It's so gentle.
Jessica Pare
#75. I did play Jesus in 'Godspell,' in high school, because I guess I'm a nerd.
Jessica Pare
#76. For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play.
Jessica Pare
#77. At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of 'Mad Men.'
Jessica Pare
#78. Working on 'Mad Men,' everything is word for word. And, honestly, I couldn't come up with anything better than that, so it's fine.
Jessica Pare
#79. My parents made me finish high school before I started acting, and I did, like, two weeks of fine arts college before I was like, 'This sucks. I'm going!' I got a few small jobs, and then I booked a big-for-Canada feature.
Jessica Pare
#80. I'm not a trained dancer - I know, I know, you're shocked, I'm sure.
Jessica Pare
#81. I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.
Jessica Pare
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