Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes to Explore
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
Kate Dickie -
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard -
I don't want to be a bust.
Malik Jackson -
I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
Eddie Huang -
I don't believe in strong-arming people.
Zachary Levi -
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
e. e. cummings
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
Laura Linney -
Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
Nancy Reagan -
Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
Nathan Fillion -
The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
D. A. Pennebaker -
As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
Oscar Hijuelos -
I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
Walter Kirn
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
Dani Shapiro -
Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
Kate Mulgrew -
It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
Rachel Weisz -
Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
Sam Kean -
The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
Adam Draper -
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
Natasha Trethewey
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There's a really fine line between artistic license and artistic licentiousness. And history is a lousy filmmaker. It doesn't give you all the ingredients you need. No story will quite fulfill that three-act structure.
Anthony McCarten -
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
Orson Welles -
I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
Paige Butcher -
Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine.
Cillian Murphy -
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson