John Dos Passos Quotes
Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.
John Dos Passos
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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Blur
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
Salman Rushdie
I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
Eddie Redmayne
If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
Zara Larsson
On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.
Naomi Watts
Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
Rachel Cusk
Any team can have a bad century.
Jack Brickhouse
I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.
Larry David
Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.
Hal Sparks
Rooting for the Cubs is not easy, but the best things in life never are.
Dennis Farina
I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.
Clive Owen
When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their eyes, walking into trees, opening the wrong door. They had no idea how to present themselves.
Dylan Moran
I didn't want actress just to be a woman standing at the window, waving hello and goodbye to men as they came and went in the world that they were struggling through. I wanted her to have a true function.
Sergio Leone
Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.
John Dos Passos
