Rebecca Traister Quotes
One of the things that gets confused often is the difference between marriage and good marriage. Marriage is a theoretical concept of the institution, and 'you should be married,' is actually meaningless. Marriage is pretty meaningless without the notion of having a specific person to whom you are married.
Quotes to Explore
-
Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
-
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
-
It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
Nastassja Kinski -
I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.
-
The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.
-
I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.
-
Maybe some mornings, you come to my house, you'll see 'Miss Blankenship' come out of bed. I'm waiting for that spinoff.
-
I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.
-
An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
-
I love working with horses. People say you shouldn't work with animals and children; that's wrong. You must only work with children, because you only work eight hours a day and I love working with animals. Animals have an honesty that human beings reach to find in their lives at the best of times.
-
Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
-
I've seen my own films close to a thousand times in one form or another. When you edit them. When you shoot them. Then you run them over and over again for sound and music. Then you'd go to premiere screenings, and have to do promotional screenings in other cities. I can't watch any of my old films.
-
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
-
I mean, so if I've talked to whites in City of Refuge, sometimes they'll wonder, "Why do we do things a certain way, and why do we make a big deal out of events?" And what's happening is they're falling back on their understanding of the way that church should work. It's not always working exactly like that, and they feel frustration or confusion. Sometimes people leave. That's certainly common in mixed churches.
-
What will happen, will happen.
-
You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.
-
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
-
There's such a fine line between defeat and losing.
-
One of the things that gets confused often is the difference between marriage and good marriage. Marriage is a theoretical concept of the institution, and 'you should be married,' is actually meaningless. Marriage is pretty meaningless without the notion of having a specific person to whom you are married.
