Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes

As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.

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• My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Long
  • Happy

• I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Character
  • Job
  • Myself

• The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Important
  • Problems

• My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Positive

• I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Think
  • Never
  • Judge

• We've just been nostalgic about old-school hip hop, listening to it at home and looking at people like Slick Rick and all those guys who used to wear huge jewellery.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • People
  • School
  • Home

• The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Great
  • Think
  • Enthusiastic

• You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Time
  • Live
  • Love

• I polled members of this council separately and it's generally thought we have to work together. But it was a lack of careful consideration that got us into the situation we're in today.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Work
  • Together
  • Today

• You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Find

• There's quite a few people getting into that - new acts coming along that are using a lot of stuff that happened in the 50s and 60s. They're completely ignoring the 70s which is kind of a turn on because to me nothing has really gone down in the 70s.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Stuff
  • Gone

• To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

  

  William James
  • Giving
  • Blessed
  • Deception

• Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Words
  • Language

• We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is a numerical infinity. But we know not of what kind; it is untrue that it is even, untrue that it is odd; for the addition of a unit does not change its nature; yet it is a number, and every number is odd or even (this certainly holds of every finite number). Thus we may quite well know that there is a God without knowing what He is.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • True
  • Nature

• Comedy is easy. First, people have to fall down. Next, include someone a little hefty. It's a hoot.

  

  Sarah Kane
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Fall

• I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Interested
  • Filmmaker
  • Stodio

• The fate of the Statute of Uses is one of the most curious in legal history. Its secret and unavowed purpose, of securing the estates of the monasteries for the Crown, it accomplished. Its ostensible purpose, fortified by a wealth of hypocritical justification, it entirely failed to achieve. Not only were devises of lands, after a brief interval, put on a legal footing; but, as is well known, uses of lands as distinguished from legal estates, soon re-appeared in full vigour. Whilst in unforeseen directions, that statute worked havoc in the medieval system of conveyancing; and gradually modernized it out of existence.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • History
  • Secret
  • Existence

• History repeats, but science reverberates.

  

  Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Science
  • Repeats
  • Reverberate

• I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.

  

  Steve Zahn
  • Campaign
  • Parts
  • Oscar

• As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.

  

  Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • Achieve
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  • Occasion