Bruce Feiler Quotes

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

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• I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Myself

• My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Teacher

• I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.

  

  Natasha Poly
  • Important
  • Care
  • Makeup

• No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Family
  • Fun
  • Thought

• It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Good
  • Trust
  • Practice

• How many different works of art have been inspired by 'Don Quixote?' Thousands. Most people enter the novel, for better or worse, through the musical the 'Man Of La Mancha.'

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • Different
  • Art

• Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• Thou shalt not laugh, thou shalt not romp,Let's grimly kiss with bated breath;As quietly and solemnlyAs Life when it is kissing Death.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Life
  • Death
  • Kiss

• The centre of gravity of a parallelogram is the point of intersection of its diagonals.

  

  Archimedes

• You have to be logical. You know? If I know that in this hotel room they have food every day, and I'm knocking on the door every day to eat, and they open the door, let me see the party, let me see them throwing salami all over, I mean, just throwing food around, but they're telling me there's no food.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Food
  • Party
  • Be Logical

• He was always before men’s eyes; a course of action which, by increasing our familiarity with great men, diminishes our respect for them.

  

  Livy
  • Great
  • Men
  • Respect

• Fuck! I got a Hugo!

  

  Neil Gaiman

• I was never the cool kid in school, and loads of people told me that I was weird, that I dressed uncool and did uncool things, that I was too nice, too happy.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • School
  • Happy

• I think I've far exceeded what I ever thought I could possibly do.

  

  Billy Crystal

• I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • School
  • High
  • Basketball

• Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

  

  James Bryce

• Wallace Beery was a tiresome actor.

  

  Maureen O'Sullivan

• There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Famous

• I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• I've always thrived on challenges, both personally and professionally.

  

  Jeff Zucker

• Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Book
  • Friends
  • Mood

• I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he said, 'Well, Kym, I feel like comics and people that use profanity, you have a lack of vocabulary, actually, a whole lot.'

  

  Kym Whitley
  • People
  • Father
  • Comedy

• Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

  

  Bruce Feiler