Wayne Gerard Trotman Quotes

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

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• It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Growing
  • Start

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Think
  • Feeling

• A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man

• No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • Change
  • Stand

• The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Future
  • Young
  • Influence

• Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Art

• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Will
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• I'm the only gay person my parents know.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Gay

• I enjoy money.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Money
  • Enjoy

• The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Sky

• So, to reward him for his run (As it was baking hot, And he was over twenty stone), The King proceeded, half in fun, To knight him on the spot.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Fun
  • King

• Playing in New York, there's a lot of pressure, but me and some Europeans like the pressure.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis

• The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

  

  Betty Buckley
  • Life
  • Live
  • Identity

• When I ride the subway back and forth, sometimes I look at the other passengers and wonder if any of them are children who have been adopted or parents who have adopted.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Wonder

• I don't think it's safe to allow anybody from the Middle East into this country.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Country

• We have a fee-for-service system that rewards quantity, not quality: profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. So doctors order more tests, more procedures, and more drugs - we actually consume more prescription drugs in the U.S. than the rest of the world combined.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • World
  • Rest
  • Quality

• I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.

  

  Connie Nielsen
  • People
  • Life
  • Remember

• Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view.

  

  Cesar Millan
  • Appreciate
  • Ways
  • Dogs

• There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Actions
  • Without
  • Protest

• Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent of your income to rent - and eviction becomes something of an inevitability to you, it denies you certain freedoms.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • School
  • Community
  • Plant

• I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • People
  • Hate
  • Comedy

• For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.

  

  Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • People
  • Art
  • Artist