Kathryn Lasky Quotes

I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make a lovely Marie Antoinette.

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• I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • World
  • Why
  • Truth

• Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Energy
  • Player
  • Year

• Either war is obsolete, or men are.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Men
  • War
  • Either

• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Life
  • House

• It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • You
  • Audience
  • Crying

• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Light
  • Control

• I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • World
  • Better
  • Doing

• I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Free
  • Young

• The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • America
  • Company
  • Irish

• When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Two
  • Expect
  • Maybe

• I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Director

• I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Religious
  • Hair
  • Never

• I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Work
  • Day
  • Artist

• All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Trust
  • Creator
  • Teaches

• When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Listen
  • Take
  • Drive

• I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

  

  Van Morrison
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• Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Good
  • Think
  • Parent

• Just know what's inside your food.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Food
  • Know
  • Inside

• I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Up

• My dad worked at a mechanical factory for 35 years. I grew up in Union City, NJ. My mother is a social worker. My sister runs a 7-Eleven, and my brother is a detox counselor. They had no predilection for the arts. But from a very young age, I really, really loved theater.

  

  Bobby Cannavale
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Age

• In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • World

• Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

  

  Dorothy Allison
  • Writing
  • Universe
  • Justice

• Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.

  

  Nadya Suleman
  • Father
  • Childhood
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• I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make a lovely Marie Antoinette.

  

  Kathryn Lasky
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