Bernard Pivot Quotes
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
Quotes to Explore
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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History's a resource.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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Out-marriage is an issue religious groups have been wrestling with for some time. Of course men and women fall in love. Of course it's not always convenient to their respective cultural and spiritual norms.
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We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up.
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Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band.
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I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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I think with most all of us, we want control of our image - it's part of the work that we do.
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They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
