Jerry Coleman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
-
When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
-
A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
-
If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
-
The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
-
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
-
Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
-
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
-
Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
-
Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
-
My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
-
Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
-
When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
-
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
-
A woman simply is, but a man must become.
-
I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
-
The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
-
I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives.
-
In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.
-
I'm probably the least cerebral guy you're ever going to meet as a writer.
-
For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.
-
It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set.
-
New York, without a doubt, is my favorite city in the world.
-
Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.
