W. W. Dumas Quotes

The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

W. W. Dumas

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• At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Challenge

• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Struggle

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Water
  • Fat

• We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Human
  • Understand
  • See

• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Changing
  • Faults
  • Them

• I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Long
  • Women

• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Being
  • Interdependence

• Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Good
  • You
  • Always

• Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Light
  • Expectations

• I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

  

  Edmund White
  • Game
  • Want
  • Challenge

• My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Eyes
  • Mouth
  • Nose

• Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Politics

• The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Way
  • Reason

• I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Different
  • America

• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • See
  • Hear

• People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • People
  • Famous
  • Act

• I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Period
  • Grow
  • Theater

• Nancy, an attractive titian blond, grinned up at her friend.

  

  Carolyn Keene
  • Nancy
  • Blond
  • Grinned

• I don't know about being an icon yet but I definitely do love fashion; it's really important for me to resemble my music. I definitely look like I sound. Creating an image is an art form in itself, it's a really fun part of being a musician.

  

  Zella Day
  • Music
  • Important
  • Art

• By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.

  

  Cato the Younger
  • Art
  • Action
  • Hurt

• I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Men
  • Think
  • Fashion

• The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

  

  W. W. Dumas
  • Art
  • City
  • Insurance