Jonathan Galassi Quotes
The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music. It's all an online business now, and that's, you know - the bookstore culture is a very vibrant part of the American experience that we're very reluctant to see go away.Jonathan Galassi
Quotes to Explore
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
Barbara Kruger -
The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
Damien Rice -
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
Harold Rosenberg -
I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
Carli Lloyd -
When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
Jack Nicholson -
When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
Wayne Gretzky
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
Dana Schutz -
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky -
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Jack Horner -
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
Damian Lewis -
I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
Olivia Colman
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
Adam Driver -
My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.
Venus Williams -
People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
Ingmar Bergman -
Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
Larry Cohen -
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Edmund Burke -
I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life.
Eric Bana -
I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.
Lea Michele -
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
Aristotle -
You need to feel like you're wearing the clothes, and they're not wearing you.
Deepika Padukone -
The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music. It's all an online business now, and that's, you know - the bookstore culture is a very vibrant part of the American experience that we're very reluctant to see go away.
Jonathan Galassi