Ellen Terry Quotes

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

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• Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Play
  • Politics

• I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Thought
  • Sexy

• When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Think
  • Single
  • Better

• And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Beautiful
  • Green
  • Tourism

• Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Dancer

• It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Love
  • Think
  • Being There

• College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

  

  J. Cole
  • School
  • College
  • Experiences

• My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Know
  • Me
  • Weekend

• My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Wish
  • Books

• Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Long
  • You
  • Film

• A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Think
  • Sound

• You have to be quite stupid to act.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Act

• I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Family
  • Job
  • Actor

• My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • You
  • Washington

• 'Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I love working in New York.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Love
  • Working
  • New York

• I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • America
  • Architecture

• What I find most satisfying about photography is the way in which it allows me to document 'reality' while at the same time creating my own version thereof; in other words, the reality I present is a reality based upon what I choose to include in the frame and what I choose to leave out.

  

  Alix Smith
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Words

• I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

  

  Artie Lange
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.

  

  Peter Bergman
  • City
  • Nice
  • Struggle

• Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If i had to pay money to do it, I would do itIt's problematical. It's disapointing often. It's very challenging. It's frustrating as hell. It's extremely demanding and totally satisfying work. And if I wasn't doing this, I would have to do legitimate work for a living. There are guys out there really working for a living, cleaning streets or coal mining, teaching. Directing is playing. Acting.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Acting

• I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Television

• Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

  

  Ellen Terry
  • Nice