Ezra Furman Quotes

My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.

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• Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Bad
  • Thing
  • Defined

• Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Long
  • Live
  • Lived

• I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • Work
  • Success

• Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Country
  • Loved

• I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Racism

• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Lose
  • Speed

• There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Friends
  • Laugh
  • Fair

• I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Human
  • Try
  • Lucky

• My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • History
  • Language

• Love is a credulous thing.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Thing

• I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Country
  • Business
  • America

• I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Work
  • Professional
  • Chef

• On the set I never know what day of the week it is.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Know
  • Day
  • Week

• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • People
  • Men
  • Movement

• Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Politics

• I was watching 'The September Issue' in the back of a theater in New York, and I thought, 'I know I really can do this with actors.'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Know
  • Thought
  • New York

• Don't listen to experts.

  

  James Dyson

• On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful form with great potential, but the environment around it is awful for a writer.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Environment

• The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.

  

  Socrates
  • Human
  • Potential
  • Develop

• From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Long
  • History
  • Lies

• One summer, when I was a kid, I was in the car with my stepfather, and he was asking me where I thought I ranked, on a scale of 1 to 10. I said, '6,' and he said, '3.' I think it was his way of telling me that I needed to get out and really attack life.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Life
  • Car
  • Summer

• My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Environment
  • Human
  • Artists