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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The World doth not imprison thee. Thou art thyself the World, and there, Within thyself, thou hold'st thyself Thy self-imprisoned Prisoner.
Angelus Silesius
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We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world - a monster country, one might say, along with others such as China, India, the recent Soviet Union, and Brazil. And there is a real question as to whether 'bigness' in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name.
George F. Kennan
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
Tana French
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In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.
Edmund Phelps
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Rainer Maria Rilke
