Oscar Wilde Quotes
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don't even know I'm working on. It's a free lunch. A free dinner. I don't know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.
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We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.
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Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
