Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.Elliot W. Eisner
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
Kajol -
The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
Randy Houser -
Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
Eartha Kitt -
Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
Dan Levitan -
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
Fanny Brice -
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
E. M. Forster
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The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.
Oliver Tambo -
We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
Harold S. Geneen -
I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
Gary Johnson -
And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
Barbara Castle -
When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
Tadao Ando -
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
Laura Linney
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Dan Rather -
It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view – I don't care if I'm from the 'X Factor;' I embrace the fact that I'm from the 'X Factor,' but other people don't embrace that.
Olly Murs -
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
Natalie Goldberg -
I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.
Corin Tucker -
I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.
Asia Argento -
I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.
Ang Lee
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Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.
Umberto Eco -
God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.
Oswald Chambers -
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
Saint Ignatius -
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
Elliot W. Eisner