Barbara Stanwyck Quotes
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
Quotes to Explore
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
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People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
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Putin is like Al Capone.
Garry Kasparov -
One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.
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I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.
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A location-aware tablet will let us use what's called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share - something we could always do with paper but that's been a challenge with digital maps in the field.
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It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing alongside Robert Lindsay and being directed by a major Broadway producer. Who said dreams don't come true?
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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As for us, my little friend, we entered the Communist Party because we were tired of dying of hunger.
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Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.
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I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.
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My brother and I shared an isolated area at the top of the house; we would clamber over the roof and gables and grow our imaginations. But it didn't feel ideal at the time.
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I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.
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Nobody wanted to help me get my start, not to mention it's tough being a female in a man's world of stand-up comedy. It's a very competitive world, and it was a challenge to find my own voice, stick to my guns.
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I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.
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If we were truly created by God, why do we occasionally bite the insides of our mouths?
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There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
