Emile Zola Quotes
When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
Emile Zola
Quotes to Explore
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
Barry Jenkins
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Edith Wharton
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
Marc Almond
Soft Cell
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
Zubin Mehta
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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
Octavia Spencer
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Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.
Warren Christopher
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We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about.
R. C. Sproul
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When I do get married again, I'm just going to take time off.
Janet Jackson
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I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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In Canada there's an extensive grant system that really allows people to make their work without having to suffer that much, and I'm staring to come around on that, that maybe people don't have to suffer. Maybe you can just not be unhappy and make beautiful music in Canada, maybe that's ok.
Emily Haines
Broken Social Scene
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
Hermann Hesse
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Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off from your inner life, from the flow of your own thoughts, and turned far too much towards the outside world.
Hilary Mantel
