Albert Rosenfeld Quotes

I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.

Albert Rosenfeld

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• I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • Think
  • Doing

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Home
  • Death
  • Night

• I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Heroine
  • Patti Smith

• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • Product

• Give me the flash lights, the red carpets, and all that goes with it. Please! Oh, and I love hoardings. I love them. Nothing makes me happier than my face splashed all over the city.

  

  Karan Johar
  • City
  • Face
  • Happier

• I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.

  

  Vijay
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Time
  • Down

• Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • Help
  • Today
  • Earth

• The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.

  

  R. Murray Schafer
  • Trying
  • Earth
  • Hand

• There are personality traits, or baggage from their backgrounds, goals that they have and the first thing I need to do is understand and then acknowledge and then accept those properties. That's kind of the baseline requirement to have a productive relationship.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Relationship
  • Personality
  • Goals

• Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Consumers
  • Flame
  • Peak

• Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?

  

  Betty Smith
  • Bad
  • Mother
  • Wife

• Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Friends
  • Laugh
  • Sore

• Another part of the challenge was to bring back things that you've forgotten about and maybe some things you haven't forgotten about, recontextualize them and have the series make sense.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Challenge
  • Things
  • Part

• I have turned down soaps operas. I want to be outside, and I want to have the gun. It is cowboys and Indians to me.

  

  Michael Horse
  • Gun
  • Indians
  • Cowboys

• It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Artist
  • Care
  • Creativity

• Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Numbers
  • Return

• I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in very complimentary terms, but rejected nonetheless. Agents would return it saying that they loved it but didn't think they could sell it, or they would ask if I could change the collection into linked stories.

  

  Debra Dean
  • Stories
  • Term
  • Return

• I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.

  

  Albert Rosenfeld
  • Return
  • Gentlemen
  • Resume