Eva Le Gallienne Quotes

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.

Eva Le Gallienne

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• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Artist

• You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Reality
  • You
  • Find

• I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • History
  • Today
  • Nation

• Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Word
  • Read

• All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Work
  • Police
  • Criticism

• I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Job
  • Creative
  • Being

• The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Need
  • Will

• You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • People
  • Money
  • History

• What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Great
  • Character
  • Three

• Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • You
  • Story
  • Discipline

• I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Love
  • Fear
  • For Her

• Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Together
  • Death

• With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • People
  • Opportunity

• The maxims of men reveal their characters.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
  • Men

• Here, in low earth orbit, we're going around the earth, so we can actually use an Internet protocol phone because we have the appropriate satellites that can get those bandwidths.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Earth

• The crafting of lyrics is really a task, and when it comes to street culture, I don't feel like anyone else articulates it better than me.

  

  Terrence LeVarr Thornton
  • Culture
  • Lyrics

• Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again - S-E-R-F music.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Music

• A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.

  

  William Feather
  • Succeed
  • Determination
  • Perseverance

• Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Good
  • Black

• People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.

  

  Jeff Ross
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.

  

  Eva Le Gallienne
  • People
  • Hate
  • Destroy