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

• You don’t find time for important things, you make it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Important

• 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

• This marriage is no one's business but our own.

  

  Bobby Darin
  • Business
  • Marriage

• Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Eyes
  • Blue
  • Blonde

• I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Famous
  • Blue

• 'You guys have a death list?' Ronan broke in. 'That is fucking dark. Am I on it?''Some days, I wish,' Blue said.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Death
  • Wish
  • Dark

• It's all or nothing with my makeup. If I get dressed up, I'll go to an extreme. I'll wear foundation, bright blue or bright red lipstick with one of my weird purple wigs.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Up
  • Weird
  • Red

• 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