Anthony Lane Quotes
We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.Anthony Lane
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
Kate McKinnon -
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Victor Hugo -
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
Abraham Lincoln -
I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
Laura Linney -
Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
Karen Allen
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I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?
Samantha Power -
Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
Candice Bergen -
War is not civilized.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
N. Scott Momaday -
I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
Imogen Heap -
A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
Jack Ma
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I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
J. D. Souther -
Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
Camille Paglia -
Oops, I did it again, didn't I? My shit's harder to figure out than what Britney's tit size is.
Eminem -
See you, my dear doctor, me, I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
Agatha Christie -
Ergo domine...credimus te esse aliquid quo nihil maius cogitari possit.
Anselm of Canterbury -
I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.
Robert Dwayne Womack
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Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.
Donal Logue -
The fact that women are the primary care-givers is a problem for women and men
Caroline Criado-Perez -
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
Joanne Rowling -
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.
Paul Auster -
Authenticity, for me, was important, because it made the reader feel ‘This is real This is not just a comic book
Gene Colan -
We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.
Anthony Lane