Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Quotes to Explore
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
Walter Huston
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
Patrick Wilson
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I was unbelievably lucky.
Wendy Hiller
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
R. Kelly
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
Gary Kemp
Spandau Ballet
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
Abigail Washburn
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
Karl Liebknecht
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New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
Victoria Justice
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
Nate Silver
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
S. E. Hinton
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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If you want to become a writer, you do need to be willing to make sacrifices.
Chevy Stevens
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You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.
Charlize Theron
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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.
George Bernard Shaw
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There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt.
Beryl Markham
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Rainer Maria Rilke
