Judith Tarr Quotes

The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.

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• For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • High
  • Earth

• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• It was always my dream to write for a living.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Living

• It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Creativity

• Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Universe
  • Rich
  • Window

• American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • American
  • Powerful

• Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Childhood
  • Curiosity
  • Ending

• There is no religion higher than truth.

  

  Helena Blavatsky
  • Truth

• In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Great
  • Music
  • Experience

• Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Different
  • Body
  • Unique

• If you have a chance to win the game, you're going to try to go for the game.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Game
  • Chance
  • Win

• Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Work
  • Experience

• A word is worth a thousand images.

  

  Andreas Gursky
  • Thousand

• Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Different
  • Environment
  • Perspective

• Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Desire
  • Taken
  • Mood

• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

  Sallust
  • Feelings
  • Tears
  • Word

• We changed the name from Sex Gang Children to Culture Club because Jon Moss, our drummer, went to L.A. on holiday and took some demo tapes with him. -Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, "I don't think America's ready for the Sex Gang Children."

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Culture

• I'm a really private person. I just love my work. I feel like celebrity has changed so much, in this culture. Ever since they started with those reality shows and people that aren't actors but they're really famous, it's gotten very different from when I started out. So, the idea of ever becoming more than what I had is not really what I want.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Person

• Man United have shops all round the world. It's a big money spinner plus the fact that they change their strip every five minutes.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • World
  • Men
  • Money

• Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith. It would just be ordinary belief. It's something you can't prove. That's what faith is, believing something you can't prove.

  

  Colin McGinn
  • Reason
  • Belief
  • Prove

• The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.

  

  Judith Tarr
  • Belief
  • Facts
  • Shows