Victoria Strauss Quotes

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• Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Together
  • Control
  • Digital

• Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Best
  • Imagination
  • Books

• Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Face
  • Paint
  • Inside

• Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • History
  • Culture
  • Debate

• I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • World
  • Culture
  • Detail

• The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Justice
  • Existence

• I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Me
  • Rap
  • Loved

• When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

  

  Vince Cable
  • Job
  • Future
  • Chance

• The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Character
  • Feel
  • Performance

• If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

  

  La Monte Young
  • Heaven
  • Communication
  • Away

• I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

  

  Van Morrison
  • Never
  • Moon
  • Silver

• I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Time
  • Car
  • Winter

• But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Together
  • Innovation

• I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Career
  • Went Up

• After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Like
  • Beethoven
  • Wagner

• The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Competition
  • Organization
  • Blow

• I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • House
  • Child
  • California

• When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Pictures

• Wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.

  

  Judy Garland
  • Wonderful
  • Empathy
  • Gentle

• Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Way
  • Purpose
  • Clear

• I really like structured coats and layered scarves, and I especially love cashmere sweaters.

  

  Tamara Feldman
  • Love
  • Like
  • Coats

• Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • Books
  • Wonderful
  • Very