Brendan Gill Quotes

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

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• The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • War
  • Today

• I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Good
  • Think
  • Problem

• When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Great
  • Father
  • Fear

• I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Past
  • Always
  • Connection

• If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Feeling
  • Face
  • Laugh

• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Single
  • Fans
  • Down

• Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Power
  • Love Is

• Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

  

  Orson Welles
  • Genius
  • Denies

• If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Sharing

• When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • People
  • New York
  • Subway

• I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Trying
  • American

• The only art I have is a Polaroid from Peter Beard from his book. I shot with him four years ago, and he did a special Polaroid for me, so I consider it a piece of art.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Art
  • Book
  • Me

• Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more or less resembles what has been thought of as a novel for these last two hundred years.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Years

• I'm not saying I like to be kicked, but it's good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
  • motivation
  • Kicked

• And I know that all I understand about living is having your work to do, and being able to do it. That’s the pleasure, and the glory, and all. And if you can’t do the work, or it’s taken from you, then what’s any good? You have to have something....

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Taken

• So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.

  

  Walter Scott
  • War

• But strength alone though of the Muses bornIs like a fallen angel: trees uptorn,Darkness, and worms, and shrouds, and sepulchresDelight it; for it feeds upon the burrs,And thorns of life; forgetting the great endOf poesy, that it should be a friendTo sooth the cares, and lift the thoughts of man.

  

  John Keats
  • Life
  • Great
  • Alone

• I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Future

• Reverend Jesse Jackson, President-for-Life of the People’s Republic of Himself.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • People
  • Life

• The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

  

  Billy Joel
  • World
  • Country
  • American

• I felt red, white and blue all over.

  

  Edward Higgins White
  • Red
  • Blue
  • White

• I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

  

  Brendan Gill
  • Blue