Erich Segal Quotes

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

Erich Segal

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• Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Soul
  • Said
  • Everything

• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Class
  • Conservative

• I've actually done a lot of comedy.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Actually

• The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Fun
  • Kid
  • Favorite

• 'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Play
  • Like
  • Paradox

• Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Work
  • God
  • Mind

• All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Good
  • Art
  • Performance

• I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Way
  • Emotional

• As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Job
  • American

• You are never really prepared for criticism.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • You
  • Criticism
  • Prepared

• It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Forever

• Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Photograph
  • Well
  • Paintings

• I would really love to play a superhero. That is definitely up there on my list. Captain Marvel especially. That would be so cool.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Cool
  • Superhero
  • Especially

• I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Think
  • Hit
  • Gestures

• I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

  

  Beck
  • Life
  • Love
  • Try

• It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Things
  • Look
  • Depends

• I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.

  

  Wale
  • Year
  • Dating
  • Anniversary

• After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I've learned something. I've learned that, no matter what happens, or happened... or where you are, or where you've been... at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It's always, always tennis. And there's nothing better.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Day
  • Better
  • End

• We don't want our players getting hurt.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Want
  • Hurt
  • Players

• Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Together
  • Perfect
  • Crazy

• Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • World
  • Living

• I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Music
  • Writing
  • College

• Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

  

  Erich Segal
  • Living
  • Heroism
  • Idealism