Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.Elliot W. Eisner
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I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
Malin Akerman -
I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
Dan Harmon -
I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
Barbara Sukowa -
I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
Cameron Mackintosh -
For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
Cameron Winklevoss -
I get to meet different directors and different people.
Quvenzhane Wallis
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
Queen Christina -
People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
Samantha Morton -
I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.
Halsey -
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Irving Kristol -
You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
Sam Mendes -
They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
Parker Posey
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I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.
Natalie Maines -
I said, 'When you are on your deathbed, Erran, pray that you never meet me in the place you are going to.'
Tanith Lee -
Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.
Alex Berenson -
If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
Anne Enright -
The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.
Anthony Foxx -
I don't think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald.
Frank Woolley
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Dada was given the Venus of Milo a clyster and has allowed the Laocoön and his sons to rest awhile, after thousands of years of struggle with the good sausage Python. The philosophers are of less use to Dada than an old toothbrush, and it leaves them on the scrap heap for the great leaders of the world.
Jean Arp -
Food from Quebec is not known to be amazing. Actually, even though you can eat really, really well in Montreal, it's crazy. It's one of the best cities I eat in, but typical Quebec food is like food from people that work in the woods. It's potatoes, meat and sauce.
Charlotte Le Bon -
I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
Raf Simons -
I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and we usually spent our time together reminiscing about mutual friends.
James Arness -
One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours´ sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
Elliot W. Eisner