Nancy Mitford Quotes
Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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I never understood when people go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so easy being pregnant.' No, it's hard. It's the most beautiful thing, yes, but it's hard.
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I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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I couldn't care less about business.
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What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
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Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
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The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.
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Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
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I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.
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Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.
