Evan Esar Quotes
The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.Evan Esar
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
Victor LaValle -
I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
Edgar Wright -
Humor is an antidote to all ills.
Patch Adams -
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
Ted Koppel -
Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
Gavin Bryars -
I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.
Samantha Morton
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I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.
Mara Brock Akil -
I don't really do playlists. I don't know how to make a playlist, honestly.
Action Bronson -
I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
Samira Wiley -
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone -
I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
Safak Pavey -
The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Attention. That's all girls want.
Diplo -
I think you'd have to literally live in a cave to not know anything about 'Twilight'. I've seen a few of the movies, but I haven't read the books.
Jake Abel -
The diva tag just won't go away. I think that's because people want me to be like that. It makes it more interesting if I have thrown a phone at somebody or a water bottle. Sadly that's just not me.
Katherine Jenkins -
The most interesting conversation is not about why Donald Trump lies. Many public figures lie, and he's only a severe example of a common type. The interesting conversation concerns how we come to accept those lies.
Bret Stephens -
There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.
Daniel H. Pink -
I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.
Doug Liman
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My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
Chris Bohjalian -
One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and he really enjoyed it. It was a really lovely occasion.
Joan Armatrading -
Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
Esther Dyson -
Because I know war... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it. .........After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this.
Edouard Boubat -
The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.
Evan Esar