John Edgar Wideman Quotes
I call people by their initials when they're good buddies, and that's a kinda street thing, too - 'Here comes JF,' or, 'Here comes KC.' It's fun; it's intimate.
John Edgar Wideman
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
Harmony Korine
No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
Walter Kirn
Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
Kate Brown
We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
Kate Brown
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mahatma Gandhi
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
F. Sionil Jose
I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
Gagan Narang
Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
Becky Lynch
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
Orson Welles
I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
Patricia Velasquez
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
Dada Vaswani
I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
Imtiaz Ali
Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
Dan Jenkins
My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.
Edie Brickell
The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
Randall Terry
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
B. B. King
After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.
Quincy Jones
If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.
Warren Farrell
You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
Wayne Dyer
On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
Caity Lotz
I had a ridiculously idyllic childhood. I think back and am like, 'Wow. I was so naive, in the best way.'
Gayle Rankin
I don't really like the word 'hobbies.'
Anthony Horowitz
I call people by their initials when they're good buddies, and that's a kinda street thing, too - 'Here comes JF,' or, 'Here comes KC.' It's fun; it's intimate.
John Edgar Wideman
