Ellen Glasgow Quotes
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.
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God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
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I believe in music.
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To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have a really good understanding of how all the parts of the puzzle come together to make a film or TV show.
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I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
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The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.
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I've always loved silent movies. I recently saw 'Tilly's Punctured Romance' at the Academy, which is the first comedy made with Charlie Chaplin in 1914, and I sat there, and I couldn't believe that the entire audience of 2,000 people were laughing that hard from a movie made in 1914 - and there were no words; it was all faces.
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
