Paul Klee Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
-
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
-
I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.
-
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
-
A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
-
Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
-
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
-
I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
-
I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
-
Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
-
I like to have something to base a role on.
-
One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
-
Listening is the key to everything good in music.
-
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
-
To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.
-
One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
-
I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
-
The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
-
Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.
-
I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect. I wanted to show readers that the larger politics of war and economics and U.S. foreign policy are inextricably bound to the supposedly trivial details of our everyday lives.
-
They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner eyelid and listen to my skin and I can't be sure how the medication is affecting me. I can't remember how I'm supposed to feel. I can't remember my name. I have never seen my face.
-
It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I had a compulsion to do it. I just had to in a way that I can't really explain.
-
See with one eye, feel with the other.
