Sarah Bernhardt Quotes

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

Sarah Bernhardt

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• Deformity
• Buffoons

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• Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Parents
  • Blood
  • Birth

• Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Truth
  • Memory
  • Complicated

• A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Last

• I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Years
  • Face
  • Scare

• I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Players
  • Other

• We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Sometimes
  • Talk
  • Tell

• The comic edge of 'Ghostbusters' will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Always
  • Same
  • Supernatural

• She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

  

  O. Henry
  • Woman
  • Act
  • Invisible

• A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Play

• I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Family
  • Best

• What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Together
  • Movie

• Hospitals are about healing.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Healing
  • About
  • Hospitals

• Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • People
  • Believe
  • Idea

• There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Kid

• Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Me
  • Pressure

• People want fashion from us, whereas they might buy core styles from other designers.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Want
  • Fashion

• Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.

  

  Randy West
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Simple

• I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • Think
  • Way

• The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Player
  • Poet
  • Envy

• When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square. I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful

• I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Real
  • Personality
  • Fit

• The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.

  

  Russell Hornsby
  • Character
  • Artist

• I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

  

  Sarah Bernhardt
  • Artist
  • Deformity
  • Buffoons