Brian Boyd Quotes
Perhaps the most demanding trick in all of art is to know ways that are going to capture the attention of an audience right now, and yet to also hold an audience hundreds or thousands of years into the future in circumstances you just cannot imagine. You've got to go very deep into human nature to do that.Brian Boyd
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
Madeline Zima -
People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
Gary Weiss -
When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
Dan Gilbert -
A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
Bayard Taylor -
It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
Walter Russell Mead -
I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
J. Milton Hayes
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
Edouard Manet -
What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
Laura Donnelly -
It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.
Becky G -
Sports is like a war without the killing.
Ted Turner -
I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
Kamala Harris
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I hate shopping. I don't go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.
Bai Ling -
The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
W. Bruce Cameron -
I live, to get out of what I live through.
Antonio Porchia -
about Ad Reinhardt: ..we supported each other.. .He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.
Agnes Martin -
I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
Alan Cumming -
We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do.
Walter Becker China Crisis
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One out of every four of us will need a United Way Agency and some in the next year, ... It doesn't matter what your income, your age, or your circumstances.
Jack Miller -
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Earl Warren -
Perhaps the most demanding trick in all of art is to know ways that are going to capture the attention of an audience right now, and yet to also hold an audience hundreds or thousands of years into the future in circumstances you just cannot imagine. You've got to go very deep into human nature to do that.
Brian Boyd