A. S. Byatt Quotes
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
Quotes to Explore
-
Justice is never given; it is exacted.
-
SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
-
A great painting is a great painting.
-
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
-
I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
-
I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
-
In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
-
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
-
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
-
By and large my relations with the US were good.
-
The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
-
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
-
I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
-
I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
-
Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
-
I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
-
I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
-
I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
-
What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
-
I've always thought that you just make everything as best as you can, and then, one day, people will look objectively at what you do, from a distance, and see its quality. All you try to do is keep the standard up so that, one day, when I sit back and I look at it all, I can feel really good about it.
-
The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you...' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.
-
The people, as much as it's fun to hate us, they need us. They need good, strong, skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is - whether it's Barack Obama or President Donald Trump.
-
People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.
-
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
