Stephen Greenblatt (Stephen Jay Greenblatt) Quotes
The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.Stephen Greenblatt
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
Quintilian -
Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
Salman Rushdie -
A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
N. T. Wright -
Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.
N. T. Wright -
I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
Sam Shepard -
My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
Patrick White
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You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
Kangana Ranaut -
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C. S. Lewis -
Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
Karen Hughes -
I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
Malin Akerman -
If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.
Manmohan Singh -
We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
Katee Sackhoff
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
Octavio Paz -
Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through and see those whom one loves come through.
E. M. Forster -
I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.
Jason Biggs -
I had no acting background in my family and no experience of theatre. I hadn't even been in a school play.
Liam Cunningham -
Kids who want to become writers might want to start carrying a small notebook in their backpack. I encourage people to sit down in malls and listen, just listen, to how people talk.
Ann Turner -
We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.
Chen Shui-bian
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I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.
Benjamin Earl King -
I see the most change in my body through exercise. They say diet determines your weight, and exercise determines your shape - I find that to be a pretty true statement. When I'm doing a lot of boxing, my hamstrings are really strong and my biceps. When I'm doing a lot of Pilates, I find that my core is really lean and my inner thighs.
Hannah Bronfman -
I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.
Amity Shlaes -
But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
Sherman Alexie -
The idea of viewers getting invested in a series is that you're getting invested in the reality of these characters' lives that, in fact, don't have an ending.
Darren Star -
The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.
Stephen Greenblatt