Andy Greenwald Quotes
To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.
Quotes to Explore
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.
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I think sometimes when you play those extra shifts, it gets you into the game a little bit more and gets you a little bit more involved.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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I am for people. I can't help it.
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It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
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It's really important for your team to be not just feel empowered but actually be empowered.
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Don't buy furs: that's No. 1. You can start with that. Then spay and neuter your pets. We destroy millions of them a year. Go to an animal shelter for a cat or dog. And read a book about how to care properly for your particular pet.
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I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.
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When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.
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I'm an actor. It's what I do. It's what I chose to do with my life when I was a little boy, and that's what Im still doing. I like to work. I came up with a work ethic, and that's just what I do.
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Anyone who's been reading my stuff can see that there's a lot of tracks being laid for future stories.
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If the Republican Party does not learn to understand unmarried women as the political force and potent voting bloc that they have become, we risk becoming the minority party.
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I always rise to the occasion for that big bet.
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Light itself is a revelation.
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One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.
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For $60, I once bought a neck massage at a 'massage parlor' that advertised in 'The Washington Post.'
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I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We'd listen to a lot of Bollywood. I'd listen to Spanish music - and I don't even speak Spanish, but Hector Lavoe is amazing - we listened to French music like Edith Piaf. She's tight. I like cool vocal inflections; I like cool sounds. I pretty much listen to anything I think is good.
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There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction...For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.
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To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.
