George Seldes Quotes

The Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, and where the list frequently differs the same interests are represented.

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• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Forget
  • Solitude
  • Cherish

• Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Writing
  • Planning

• One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Identity
  • Search

• I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • God
  • Football

• Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Like
  • Person
  • Choice

• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Time
  • Computers

• When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Like
  • Radio

• One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • War
  • Know
  • Rules

• What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Forever

• I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • God
  • Know

• You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • You
  • Learn
  • Alive

• The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Great
  • Country
  • Education

• If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Yourself

• A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Moral

• All of my films have been very dialogue-heavy, and that's great. It always makes it more of a challenge to market in other countries.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Great
  • Always
  • Challenge

• My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Book
  • History
  • Man

• You don't have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them … One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. Dogs would pursue their natural lives in the wild … they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Home
  • Pet

• 'You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life

• It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Stop

• I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Home
  • Fun
  • Party

• I had a certain kind of disassociation from the other kids because I had more interest in sociology, ideas and trying to communicate those ideas to the kids around me.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Kind

• With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.

  

  Kevin Whately
  • Brain
  • Exercise

• Nathaniel Hawthorne says, 'Easy reading is damn hard writing.' I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Writing
  • Look
  • Pull

• The Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, and where the list frequently differs the same interests are represented.

  

  George Seldes
  • Party
  • Interest
  • Democratic