Edwin Newman Quotes
Television played its part, too. It exalted the picture and depreciated the word. The "talking head" was considered dull television and to be avoided whenever possible in favor of something, anything, moving, though a head that talks well is a pearl beyond price.
Edwin Newman
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
Patricia Heaton
Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
Walter Gropius
I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
Patricia Highsmith
I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
Sam Donaldson
You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
Aaron Sorkin
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Mahatma Gandhi
Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
Samuel Larsen
In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
Ted Cruz
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
Viktor E. Frankl
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
H. G. Bissinger
When I heard that Paul Feig was directing an all-female 'Ghostbusters,' I was prepared to do anything to be a part of this, to be a part of what sounded like an incredible project.
Kate McKinnon
An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.
Yair Lapid
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.
D. B. Weiss
'Anackire asks nothing because she needs nothing, being everything,' Raldnor said tightly, using a quotation of the temple.The Ommos laughed gently and shook his head.'Such undemanding gods.'
Tanith Lee
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
Frederic Bastiat
Union leaders argue that pension shortfalls account for a proportionally tiny portion of governments' financial problems, and by all accounts, there are plenty of parties to blame for the growth in payrolls and obligations.
Charles Duhigg
I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them.
Mark Duplass
He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
Ralph Abernathy
What's considered ideal in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world. I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!
Kate Beckinsale
The pilgrimage to Mecca, known as the Hajj, is a religious obligation that every orthodox Muslim fulfills, if able, at least once in his or her lifetime.
Malcolm X
I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?
Walker Percy
Television played its part, too. It exalted the picture and depreciated the word. The "talking head" was considered dull television and to be avoided whenever possible in favor of something, anything, moving, though a head that talks well is a pearl beyond price.
Edwin Newman