Daniel Kemmis Quotes

The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.

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• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Did

• Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Ever
  • Inviting
  • Polo

• Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Think
  • Me
  • Story

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Believe
  • Talent

• I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Community
  • Child

• I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Makeup

• Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Talent
  • Stupidity

• War is the continuation of politics by other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Politics
  • Other

• I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Good
  • Thoughts

• I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Effective
  • Storyteller
  • Expert

• Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Power
  • Past

• I believe that all nations - strong and weak alike - must adhere to standards that govern the use of force. I - like any head of state - reserve the right to act unilaterally if necessary to defend my nation. Nevertheless, I am convinced that adhering to standards, international standards, strengthens those who do, and isolates and weakens those who don't.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Strong

• Of Lord Chesterfield This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!

  

  Samuel Johnson

• 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

• You’ve been a father to me.Your 1960’s speak.Gives me comatose joy like re-run TV.While the mountainside was shining.Wild colors of my destiny

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Father
  • Joy
  • Destiny

• 'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'

  

  Marc Bloch
  • May
  • Truth
  • Past

• My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Respect

• Clarice: getting cold feet There's still time!Toni: We can just call everyone and say we're terribly sorry but something came up and we have to leave town!Clarice: ...But what about the five gallons of baba ganoush, and all those tofu pups?Toni: Shit. I forgot. Well, I guess we'll just have to go through with it, then.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Cold

• I feel like there's value in experience.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Experience
  • Value

• Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • World

• Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • World

• I write, and when see a movie in which it's supernatural, some other worlds, or some other aspect to our world that we're not aware of, and [they] don't explain what the rules are, that kind of stuff drives me crazy.

  

  William Mapother
  • World
  • Writing
  • Kind

• The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.

  

  Daniel Kemmis
  • World
  • Common
  • Willing