Pico Iyer Quotes

More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.

Pico Iyer

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• I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Dream
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Different
  • Single

• When I'm about to go on stage, and I look out and just see the fans filled out in the arena, all pumped up and screaming - that gives me butterflies! I just love that feeling, and I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, it's gonna be a great show!'

  

  Manika
  • Feeling
  • Like
  • Gives

• I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Good
  • Know
  • Comedy

• A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Good
  • Remember

• Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Women
  • Psychology

• Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Realize

• There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • True
  • Yourself

• There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Perfect
  • Single
  • Artist

• I’m ambivalent. I like Gekko, which is partly why Michael Douglas did so well…. Gekko is despicable but kinda fun too.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Why
  • Fun

• The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Pain
  • Moments

• I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in our great country jump to conclusions about each other.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Great
  • Country
  • Police

• Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • World
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• It's not the machine itself that does the trick. The machine merely acts as an intermediary between the sensitive and the spiritual force. It is an extension of the sensitive. It magnifies the capability of the sensitive and acts as a link of some sort. It enables the sensitive to perform his function.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Spiritual

• By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• La India's voice is so powerful. It will give you life.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Life
  • Powerful

• The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

  

  Jamie Dimon

• You're so focused on this child, you can sometimes forget about you as a couple, and that's just as important.

  

  Al Roker
  • Important
  • Couple

• It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.

  

  Jenn Suhr
  • Good
  • Wind

• Pilgrim's Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Family
  • Why
  • Interesting

• Bibite ! pergraecamini ! Este ! effercite vos !

  

  Plautus

• I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well.

  

  Blake Jenner
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.

  

  Pico Iyer