Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
Quotes to Explore
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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I love it when a guy compliments my vibe.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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By my third try, Lady Aithra had lost her patience and brought me to stand before her son while he was in conference with a group of hard-faced Athenian nobles. I smiled unashamedly when she called me willful, wild, and ungrateful, which provoked her so much that she actually dared to declare, “My son, you must not marry this girl. I don’t care how beautiful she is, she’ll bring us nothing but grief and leave Athens in flames!
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I'll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace.
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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
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The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
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I'm very prescriptive about who I work with.
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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
