H. L. Mencken Quotes
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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X Out is perfect for my schedule. It is so simple, fast and actually works. I am more confident in my own skin and always camera ready - a necessity in my line of work.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
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I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.
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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
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Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.
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Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.
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Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.
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I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.
