Anne Jennifer Dudley Quotes
I was part of the sort of avant guard tradition of John Cage and music concrete and pushing back the boundaries of avant garde classic pop rhythms. I think everyone brings something completely different to it.
Quotes to Explore
-
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
-
I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
-
It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
-
That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
-
We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
-
At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
-
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
-
In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
-
I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
-
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
-
I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
-
I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
-
Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
-
Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
-
My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
-
I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
-
Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
-
I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
-
While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.
-
If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.
-
Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.
-
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.
-
'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.
-
I was part of the sort of avant guard tradition of John Cage and music concrete and pushing back the boundaries of avant garde classic pop rhythms. I think everyone brings something completely different to it.
