Evan Mandery Quotes

Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.

Evan Mandery

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• There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Religion

• I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• 'Heroine' is about a declining and imbalanced superstar - a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She's a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she's very fragile.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Character
  • Brave
  • Role

• Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Great
  • Enough
  • Philosophy

• I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Justice
  • Rap
  • Vigilante

• I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • People
  • Why
  • War

• Nothing should be noticed.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Should
  • Nothing
  • Noticed

• I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fun

• I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Different
  • Important
  • Want

• If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • Home
  • Friends

• Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Time
  • Think
  • Sometimes

• There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • Funny
  • Language
  • Rules

• I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Always
  • Never

• Here's the thing about Red Sox fans, or actually just fans from that region, in general: they appreciate the effort. And if you mail it in or if you give 80 percent, even with a win, they'll let you know that's not how you do it. They want - if it's comedian, if it's a musician, bring us your best show.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Best
  • Effort
  • Red

• Self-government means continuous effort to be independent of government control, whether it is foreign government or whether it is national. Swaraj government will be a sorry affair if people look up for the regulation of every detail of life.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Time
  • Song
  • Words

• The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Great
  • Business
  • Law

• When I make a photograph, I make love.

  

  Alfred Stieglitz

• The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.

  

  Elliott Abrams

• Impossible for me to know whether or not I take myself seriously. The drama of detachment is that we cannot measure its progress. We advance into a desert, and we never know where we are in it.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Progress
  • Drama
  • Desert

• I think there is too much attention on mentoring. If people want to be scientists, they will figure out how to do it. They need to figure it out by themselves.

  

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
  • People
  • Attention
  • Scientist

• I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • Music
  • Together

• Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.

  

  Evan Mandery
  • Picture
  • Sing
  • Give Up