Norbert Elias Quotes

A person is not an artist in one compartment and a human being in another.

Norbert Elias

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• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Live
  • Country
  • America

• My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Young

• A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Last

• The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Actor

• To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Saying

• I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Years
  • Face
  • Scare

• That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Together
  • Teach

• I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Way
  • Confidence
  • Personality

• I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Players
  • Other

• Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Up
  • Artist
  • Loved

• I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Study
  • Too Much
  • Cricket

• Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Want
  • Everything
  • Now

• I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Business
  • Happy
  • Successful

• It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Why
  • Universe
  • Creative

• There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Kid

• I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Work
  • Small
  • Company

• In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Politics

• Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Love
  • Know
  • Alone

• The world is not divided into two types of being, one superior and the other merely surrounding it. Being, nature, the universe - they are all one infinitely complex and mysterious metaorganism of which we are but a part, though a unique one.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Nature
  • Universe

• Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the World or observation of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Heart
  • Hope

• I know Seth Rollins is a CrossFit guy. I just think back to my days, and I don't know how I could have done CrossFit training and then wrestled that night.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Training
  • I Know
  • Wrestled

• I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch 'The Wire.' Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it.

  

  Dominic West
  • People
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Influence
  • United States

• A person is not an artist in one compartment and a human being in another.

  

  Norbert Elias
  • Artist
  • Human
  • Compartment