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

• That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Truth
  • Idea
  • Table

• 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

• Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Important
  • Me
  • Prayer

• Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Well
  • Southern

• 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

• Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Life
  • Friend

• I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Up
  • Country
  • Girl

• To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over... What you first gain from them is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you 'line up' your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instil, and modify to some slight degree their mass.

  

  William James
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Special

• 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