Henrik Ibsen Quotes

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority.

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• People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • War
  • Fun

• As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Night

• Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Song
  • Best

• I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Believe
  • America
  • Past

• I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Home
  • Cold
  • Christmas

• Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • Pretty
  • Decisions
  • Boring

• The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Thoughts

• So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • People
  • Alone
  • Abuse

• I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Love
  • Think
  • Bond

• We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I never wanted fame.

  

  Jack Dunphy
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Fame

• Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Life
  • Real
  • Simple

• If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Ifs

• What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Up
  • Made
  • Prove

• I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Book
  • Death
  • Morning

• The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Work
  • Art
  • Reality

• I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Thing
  • Very

• When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • World
  • Should
  • Week

• Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Like

• In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was something for elites to sort out.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Something
  • Africa
  • Masses

• O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,--at which my soul aches to think,-- Intoxicated with eternity.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Universe
  • Lights
  • Masses

• If the majority of people said I did something wrong, then I must be wrong, and I will think 'I didn't even mean it like that, why are you treating me like this?' But if a lot of people say that I'm wrong and it's not good, then it must be not good. I will say, 'Okay' and then tell myself that this cannot happen again. I have to grasp it and change it for the better.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Majority
  • Subject
  • Masses