Brendan Gill Quotes
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.Brendan Gill
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
Viggo Mortensen -
Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
Karen Horney -
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Xun Kuang -
The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
Orlando Bloom -
As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
Gavin Newsom
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I've been things and seen places.
Mae West -
I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.
Parvesh Cheena -
I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
Camille Claudel -
I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
Dan Glickman -
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Walt Disney -
'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
Iggy Pop
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
Vijay Mallya -
What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
Malorie Blackman -
I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
Camryn Manheim -
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
Saadi -
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
W. Clement Stone -
When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
Felix Dennis
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I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.
David Copperfield -
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown -
I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of provincial India would be an interesting subject to tackle.
Pankaj Mishra -
Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
Beatrice Webb -
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
Brendan Gill