Alberto Moravia Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
-
Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.
-
It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
-
Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
-
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
-
I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.
-
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
-
Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
-
I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.
-
We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.
-
At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
-
Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
-
Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for Senate candidates who were Tea Party candidates. We spent almost $20 million for House candidates who were Tea Party candidates.
-
Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
-
I don't want to do only blockbusters.
-
My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
-
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
-
It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.
-
I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
-
I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply embedded in mystery. It is not answerable to any of our formulas.
-
... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.
-
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.
-
I would like to thank the United staff for making me feel so welcome and part of the United family from my first day. And of course thank you to those fans who have supported me throughout the season.
-
A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.
