Harold Rosenberg Quotes
America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
Quotes to Explore
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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No one person is an island.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I think that 'Saving Grace' is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.
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'You say 'ore´gano', we say 'orega´no'. You say 'tom a to' we say 'toma´to'. You say 'erb' and we say herb because there's a fucking h at the beginning.
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Owning your curves means being confident - actually being confident - in your own skin.
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Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.
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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
