Emanuel Ax Quotes

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• By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Art
  • Society
  • Poetry

• 'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • Ideas
  • Successful

• You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • You
  • Judge
  • Them

• I did feel pressure to look a certain way on 'Hollyoaks.' But I just had to stay strong and not let myself get into a state of mind that isn't healthy.

  

  Hannah Tointon
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Myself

• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
  • Sharing

• ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Working
  • Talk
  • Hospitals

• I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Years
  • Old

• My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Country
  • You
  • Financial

• I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Art

• In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a people, you would say that if you get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat your breakfast, go to work, make money, pay your bills, you're progressing, when you're still doing what's comfortable.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • School
  • Powerful
  • Choice

• In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Think
  • Society
  • Easy

• On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Great
  • Childhood
  • Looks

• Life is like an aimless river The time is now again - Ceiling Unlimited (2002)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Life
  • Time
  • River

• People that aren't special, people that don't have tiger blood and Adonis DNA (The Today Show)

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • People
  • Today
  • Tiger

• One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one.

  

  Clifford Geertz
  • Life
  • Live
  • May

• Whatever it is that you want to achieve, you absolutely can do it - you just have to apply yourself. Don't break the law... Buckle down and make the right choices.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Law
  • Choices

• Everyone knows about hot dogs and the Big Apple. But for me, New York City street food is all about the Biryani Cart.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • Food
  • City

• The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Married
  • Hollywood
  • Young People

• I consider myself an 'actorvist.' When I say that, what I mean is that I use my art to inform my activism and to be my activism sometimes, but I also use my activism in my art.

  

  Wilson Cruz
  • Art
  • Activism
  • Actorvist

• How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.

  

  Emanuel Ax