Andrei Codrescu Quotes

Only the poor can create art.

Andrei Codrescu

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• This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Why
  • Always
  • Better

• My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • She
  • Mother

• Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Great
  • Women
  • Strong

• As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Great
  • Power

• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Death
  • Light
  • Dawn

• Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Different
  • Me
  • Perfect

• Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Love
  • Guy

• When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Action
  • Fate

• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

  

  Sabine Lisicki
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Tennis

• Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Board
  • Chairman

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Work
  • Men
  • Man

• Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • You
  • Stand
  • Soft

• None of the parties want this conflict to go on.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Want
  • Conflict
  • Go

• Good supporters who have single daughters say, 'Hey, you need to take my daughter out.' And it's awkward.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Good
  • You
  • Single

• The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Lost

• If there's room to make a record every year, and it sounds nothing like the old one, I might do that. It's easy to get in and have fun. To me, if it feels right, that's all that needs to be done.

  

  Sam Dew
  • Done
  • Fun
  • Year

• All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

  

  Jacques Lipchitz
  • Life
  • Art
  • Death

• Only the poor can create art.

  

  Andrei Codrescu
  • Art