Gerald Seymour Quotes

Very rarely does anyone say that the TV is better than the book.

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• Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

  

  Mae West
  • Important
  • Think
  • Saying

• Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Believe
  • Learning
  • Moving

• Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Sorrow
  • Misery
  • Stream

• I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Help

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Live
  • Independent
  • Place

• Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Design
  • Ugly
  • Video Games

• I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Start

• The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Point
  • Jazz

• My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Great
  • Father
  • Beautiful

• Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Vary

• The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Black
  • Community
  • Party

• 'Giving 2.0' is about making your giving matter more to the people we all hope to help, and it's about making your giving matter more to you.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • People
  • Help
  • Hope

• Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Differences
  • Celebrate

• I get my light eyes from my mother.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Mother
  • Light
  • Eyes

• If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that 'All abilities come from one mind' sounds as though it has to do with sentient matters, but it is in fact a matter of being unattached to life and death. With such non-attachment one can accomplish any feat.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Death

• All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Sports

• If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

  

  James Mattis
  • People
  • History
  • Help

• The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Action
  • Lost
  • President

• I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Good
  • Book
  • Taken

• Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Book
  • Happy
  • Place

• The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Devil
  • Angel

• Very rarely does anyone say that the TV is better than the book.

  

  Gerald Seymour
  • Book
  • Anyone
  • Rarely