Harriet Martineau Quotes

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

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• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Popular
  • Look
  • China

• It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Actor

• I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Often
  • Wizard

• I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Work
  • Want
  • Try

• The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Lies

• Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Only
  • Got

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Perfect

• I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Beware
  • Bearing
  • Geeks

• I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Love
  • Nice
  • Obsessed

• People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Nonfiction

• Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Great
  • Democracy
  • Commitment

• If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Know

• Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• 'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Record
  • Well

• I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer.

  

  Joe Swanberg
  • Art

• Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

  

  Jack Herer
  • World
  • Religious
  • Creative

• All were fat; and well they might Be in admirable plight, For one by one, and two by two, He tossed them human hearts to chew.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

  

  Oren Peli
  • You
  • Seeing
  • Not Knowing

• I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Mind
  • Book

• I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Author
  • Seeing
  • Traveler