Talia Balsam Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
-
The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
-
I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
-
Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
-
Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
-
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
-
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
-
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
-
I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
-
Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.
-
The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
-
L.A. makes you feel ugly.
-
A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
-
I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
-
I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
-
My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
-
You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
-
I just think political correctness is crap.
-
You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.
-
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
-
Going to a theatre and watching yourself on the big screen is a nightmare.
-
For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.
-
'Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons' is a kind of novel in verse about the arc of an urban lesbian love affair - and I suppose there is a certain amount of voyeurism in the consumption of fiction! The 'Sancerre' poems here are more contemplative and about the relationship of the individual to local and wider histories.
-
I'm much more shy than most of my family.
