Ezra Pound Quotes

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

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• I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Support
  • Grateful

• The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Competition
  • Organization
  • Blow

• The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Think
  • Romantic
  • Last

• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Character
  • Day

• Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Interested
  • Gossips

• 'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it when I was 8, and I'm still an avid viewer.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Love
  • Science
  • Doctor

• I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. I decided to take a little time to enjoy life. I traveled, built my dream house, rescued a few dogs. My return to music, and acting, was deliberate, part of my musical arc.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Character
  • Feel
  • Yourself

• If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Come
  • Figure
  • Publicity

• Even if you've gone easy on the vermouth, there are still serious downsides to alcohol consumption, including but not limited to the sense that you're a good dancer.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Serious
  • Easy

• I'm just trying to blur this very clear line we've drawn and are drawing over and over and over again between communities. Saying those are queer films and those are films. I would love for that line to disappear. For that frontier to be abolished once and for all.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Drawing

• The Idealization of deep flaws seeping through coiled cracks;The reality we all want to avoid is a plagued sickness we choose to live with.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Deep

• One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time-that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Time
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Nature
  • Interesting

• Estque dei sedes nisi terra et pontus et aeret caelum et virtus? superos quid quaerimus ultra?Jupiter est quodcumque vides, quocumque moveris.

  

  Lucan

• I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen … that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

  

  Lucian Freud
  • Picture
  • Painting

• When you put yourself out into the world and say, 'Hey, look at me,' you're going to get criticized.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • World

• I think we go through our lives limiting our potential, and when times are tough, it's easy to convince ourselves that something isn't possible, but if you start there, then you limit yourself and the possibilities of what you can create.

  

  Brian Chesky

• For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Society
  • Revolution
  • Building

• Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming over the speakers.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • House
  • Rest

• Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Question
  • Originality