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• Either war is obsolete, or men are.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
  • Cry

• 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 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

• 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
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• Just know what's inside your food.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Food
  • Know
  • Inside

• I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you to concentrate more on the story and the characters. I think that there is something about dirty, gritty and raw filmmaking that makes it feel a little more natural and makes it easier to connect with the action.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Small
  • Action
  • Creative

• Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Live
  • Done

• I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Better
  • I Think

• I have no idea what the economics of the movie business is, especially with all the new Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, AMC, SyFy, and HBO series. But I am intrigued with what feels like a new type of show - the six-to-eight-hour movie. It's a little too long to watch in one setting, but you can watch it over a three- to five-day period.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Long
  • Business
  • Movie

• The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

  

  Chris Hughes
  • Time
  • Period

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Movie