Martin Starr Quotes

I'm not one of those guys that's a purist when it comes to videogames.

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• Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Reason
  • Emotion

• Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Women
  • Inspired
  • Hero

• You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • You
  • Running
  • Say

• We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Magic
  • Must
  • Daylight

• Political correctness kills discussion.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Political
  • Discussion

• It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • World
  • Art

• It's great living with your best friends.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Best

• I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Done
  • Me
  • Early

• When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Wrong
  • Lose

• My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles from a young age.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Friends
  • Age

• They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Me
  • Space
  • Flying

• MTV shows me love.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • Me
  • Shows

• I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Me
  • Person
  • Intense

• It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Writing
  • Stupid
  • Inside

• I'd love to play Wonder Woman.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Time
  • Ugly
  • Swing

• Tea is a huge part of my life.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Tea

• Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?Is it possible that a theory of man is nothing more nor less than a theory of the speaking creatures?

  

  Walker Percy
  • Why
  • Nature

• Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • Time
  • Moral
  • Dying

• And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Time
  • Successful
  • Comfortable

• To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.

  

  Ferdinand Foch

• When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing

• Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me. Dance for me, Salomé, I beseech you. If you dance for me you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it you, even unto the half of my kingdom.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Evil
  • Give
  • Passing

• I'm not one of those guys that's a purist when it comes to videogames.

  

  Martin Starr