Mined Quotes

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon Hill

Men, Thoughts, Earth

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
Jerry Saltz

Strange, Between, Few

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
Dan Savage

Holidays, Exploited

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.
Ayelet Waldman

Family, History, Writing

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
Kevin Spacey

Movies, Different, Before

It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.
Julianna Baggott

Children, Person, Made

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.
Paul D. Boyer

Experience, Saying, While

I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.
Sissy Spacek

Actor, Later, Details

No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.
Chuck Eddy

Sense, Makes, Band

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