Bear McCreary Quotes

Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.

Bear McCreary

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• I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Mission
  • Statement
  • Toast

• If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Country
  • Die
  • Suffering

• I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Habit

• Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Today
  • Software

• The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • You
  • Basketball

• Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Good
  • Children
  • Best

• I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Jazz

• The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Art
  • War

• The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Respect
  • Independent
  • Wanted

• Music is split up now into little pockets.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Up
  • Music
  • Little

• At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Heaven
  • Humanity
  • Door

• Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Desire
  • Elysian Fields
  • Mistral

• We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

  

  H. H. Asquith
  • Good
  • Power
  • War

• It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Women
  • Opinions
  • Booth

• The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

  

  George Eliot
  • Desire
  • Conquer
  • Subjection

• Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Remember
  • Hates
  • Shocks

• All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Desire
  • Spring
  • Strive

• I really think people are greatly stimulated and enriched by experiencing in film just as we can from novels and other art, experiencing things that resonate with what our lives are about. I think people really want to know... want to share, want to have the stimulus to think and care about the way they live their lives, the way they relate to other people, their aspirations, their hopes, et cetera.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Film
  • Care
  • Novel

• What I learned about acting, from my experiences directing, is why so many producers and directors don't like actors. You go through all of this work securing a location, figuring out how to get electricity there, how to get trucks parked where they need to be, and where catering is going to come from. And if the actors don't come up with some magic, it actually didn't matter. That creates a lot of animosity towards the actors.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Actors
  • Learned
  • Experiences

• Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.

  

  Bear McCreary
  • Horror
  • Regard
  • Tension