Amy Gerstler Quotes

Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.

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• I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Ski
  • Descending
  • Himalayas

• When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Sometimes
  • Movies
  • Superhero

• I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Up
  • World
  • Creative

• I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Wish
  • Same
  • Old

• Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Control
  • Very
  • Machine

• Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • People
  • History
  • Death

• No one person is an island.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Person
  • Island

• Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Work
  • God
  • Thinking

• Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Life
  • Time
  • Relationship

• I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Enemy
  • Will
  • Worst

• My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Fight

• My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Good
  • Money

• Being an actor does make you aware of your age.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Age
  • You
  • Actor

• In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Suffering
  • Importance
  • Scale

• In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Rare

• I never thought of myself as a Surrealist. I didn't think of myself as anything. I try not to. We all have these egos.

  

  Leonora Carrington

• You can go the route of not living your life at all - and a lot of actors do that, where they just won't even go out of the house at all - but it makes life so unenjoyable. You can't go out, you can't hold hands with your girlfriend, you can't do any of these things.

  

  Austin Butler
  • Life
  • House
  • Girlfriend

• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• The Freedom Caucus is very popular in my state.

  

  John Fleming
  • Freedom
  • Popular

• Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent. A strong spirit transcends rules,' Prince once said - and nobody's spirit was stronger, bolder, or more creative. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, his band, and all who loved him.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.

  

  Amy Gerstler
  • Art
  • America
  • Poetry