George Pierce Baker Quotes

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

George Pierce Baker

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• We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Reason

• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Art
  • Happiness

• Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Great
  • Step

• Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Great
  • Art
  • Movie

• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Think
  • Like
  • Independent

• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• Silence is a source of great strength.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Silence
  • Strength

• It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'

  

  Valerie June
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Song

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Career
  • Independent
  • Blessed

• That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Military

• Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.

  

  Manika
  • Great
  • Song
  • Stop

• As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • Interesting

• It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • America
  • Movie

• The Steelers run a great organization.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Great
  • Organization
  • Run

• 'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Great
  • Character
  • Girl

• I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Great
  • Meeting

• To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said, 'I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.'

  

  Plutarch
  • Good
  • Great
  • Petty

• The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

  

  Lech Walesa
  • Positive
  • Service
  • Lies

• In order to have a great rivalry, ... you've got to have two teams that are beating each other, and it's been one-sided. So I don't know. I can't speak for the rivalry part of it, but certainly we haven't been doing our part is the best way of putting it. And I think they're a much improved football team over last year from what I've seen on film. I think they've got a new system there on defense, and they're obviously very, very well-coached, and I have great respect there for Coach Parcells.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Great
  • Team
  • Respect

• My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.

  

  Colin Hanks
  • Dad
  • Decision

• No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

  

  George Pierce Baker
  • Great
  • Drama
  • Independent