Feist Quotes

For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.

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• Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.

  

  Dan Fogelman
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Son

• Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • God
  • Artist
  • Just

• In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • War
  • Marine
  • Marine Corps

• Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Science
  • You
  • Fiction

• If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Career
  • Day
  • Best

• So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • School
  • Education
  • Religious

• If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Genius
  • Just
  • Wait

• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Nothing
  • Creation
  • Unnatural

• I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Reality
  • Funny
  • Realize

• I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Important
  • Home
  • Worry

• When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Action

• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Myself

• There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Dance
  • Find
  • Look

• If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • World
  • Language
  • Someone

• Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

  

  Eli Roth
  • Godfather

• Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • World
  • Music
  • Laughter

• I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Want

• Models are people. A lot of people like to make us some species that are not human; we are normal people.

  

  Sara Sampaio
  • People
  • Models

• People ask me, 'Why angels? Why paranormal? Why teens?' In the beginning, I'm not sure I knew I was starting down any of those twisted paths - paths that now seem so familiar to me that they are downright comforting. In the beginning, I was just writing about love.

  

  Lauren Kate
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.

  

  Feist
  • Music
  • Me
  • Choice