Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The Greek 'point of view' in both art and chronology has little in common with ours but was much like that of the Middle Ages. (p. 64)Marshall McLuhan
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
Carla Bley -
I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
Victoria Justice -
I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town -
When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
Pamela Meyer -
It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
Kate Christensen -
I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
B. J. Novak -
I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy -
Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
Natalie Wood -
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. Wilson -
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
Rachel Platten -
I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
Mandy Moore
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
Laila Ali -
For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
Kate McKinnon -
I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.
Laura Linney -
Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
Yandel Wisin & Yandel -
I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
L.A. Reid -
Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
Karrie Webb
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I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home.
Mary Kay Andrews -
That should probably be written: no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
Larry Wall -
It's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. I'm not a musician. I never thought of performing in a rock n' roll band. I was just drawn in. It was like being called to duty - I was called to duty, and I did my duty as best as I could.
Patti Smith -
My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.
Chantal Sutherland -
The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty. Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
Matthew Arnold -
The Greek 'point of view' in both art and chronology has little in common with ours but was much like that of the Middle Ages. (p. 64)
Marshall McLuhan