Hector Berlioz Quotes
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Quotes to Explore
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When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
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I was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself - you just had to figure out what that was. You didn't have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
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I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ideas, and I'd just go off and write them. I wasn't trying to write one-act plays - it's just how the ideas would be expressed. Every condition I was in seemed like it could be a play.
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When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.
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[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.
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Be the inspiration you want to see in others.
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
