David Meltzer Quotes

I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.

David Meltzer

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• I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Men
  • Business
  • English

• With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Language
  • Grit

• Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.

  

  Oveta Culp Hobby
  • Me
  • Everything
  • Ever

• Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Trying
  • Man
  • English

• It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • English
  • Language
  • Special

• Coffee is a language in itself.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Language
  • Coffee
  • Itself

• I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Good
  • Language
  • Cutting

• Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • American
  • Study

• Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Language
  • Story
  • DNA

• I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Everything

• I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • People
  • Food
  • Language

• Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Everything
  • Brilliant
  • Coen

• Time will heal everything.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Time
  • Everything
  • Will

• I decided to do everything around fashion but fashion itself, and that's accessories.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Fashion
  • Everything
  • Decided

• If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Language

• There were people in Cuba who truly had substantial things to gain from revolution. There were people who had things to lose in the revolution. I think they're all allowed to have their memories of what happened.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Memories
  • Revolution

• I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Feel
  • Everything
  • Very

• I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dying or something. I would make them sit there and watch all my plays. I would be talking in gibberish language, like I was talking in a different language, and my parents would be like, 'Oh that was great!' and I'd be like, 'Wait, it's not done!'

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Great
  • Different
  • Done

• I love language. It doesn't bother me that its effects are partial. To me that is very sanity-producing. It would be weird if the effects of language were more than partial, if your whole life existed within your texts. That would be much scarier to me than language being an inadequate tool to represent.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Language
  • Effects
  • Partial

• In life, we all learn from everyone.

  

  Nicolas Roeg
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Everyone

• Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Defeat
  • Heroes
  • Described

• I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.

  

  David Meltzer
  • Language
  • Revolution
  • Everything