Ellen Dissanayake Quotes
In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in.
Ellen Dissanayake
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As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.
Dan Hawkins
Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
Patrick Duffy
I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
Ira Glass
We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
Yoweri Museveni
I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.
Vicky McClure
They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.
Edward Hopper
I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.
Emily Mortimer
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
Constance Baker Motley
I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.
Joel Edgerton
Let the fresh fruits and vegetables be your guide, and make something that will keep for the whole week.
Marcus Samuelsson
When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home from playing with a friend, and I remember the mother saying, 'Tell Jeffrey to go home.' And I said to the girl, 'Why?' She goes, 'My mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.'
Jeffrey Tambor
Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
Paul Wolfowitz
A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
Hannah Gadsby
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde
I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you and how the art form has changed or not changed and to learn from the greats.
Kevin Chamberlin
In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in.
Ellen Dissanayake