Alan Dundes Quotes
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
Quotes to Explore
-
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
-
When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
-
I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
-
Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
-
The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
-
When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
-
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
-
If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
-
I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
-
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
-
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
-
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
-
I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.
-
In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
-
Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.
-
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
-
So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
-
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
-
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
-
If due to environment businesses flop then we don’t look at religion involved in it right? We worry about environment; similarly we have to look at the rural economy. So country’s problem is not Modi but a 'stagnated perverted mindset'. They want to take every issue to that one communalised corner.
-
Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.
-
When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
-
I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn't let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she's right: short hair did suit me.
-
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
