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I've always been somewhat uncomfortable on the stage, and I've always felt like physically having to negotiate my own presence as a part of presenting work has always been a source of angst for me.

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• If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Responsibility

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Violence

• No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Best

• I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Problem
  • Smart

• Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

  

  Raf Simons
  • World
  • Art
  • Fashion

• There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Different
  • True
  • Picture

• There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Song
  • Singing

• Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Chance
  • Luck

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • History
  • Free
  • Expression

• My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Hope
  • Education

• Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Old
  • Innocent
  • Grow

• TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Church
  • Catholic
  • Meant To Be

• My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Fighting

• Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Great
  • Live
  • May

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Want
  • You
  • Message

• Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia, Procida, Sorrento, Positano, Pompeii, and Capri.

  

  Diego Della Valle
  • Country

• Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Life
  • Music
  • Everyday

• I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • Work

• Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.

  

  Arthur Bryant
  • Real
  • November

• I've always been somewhat uncomfortable on the stage, and I've always felt like physically having to negotiate my own presence as a part of presenting work has always been a source of angst for me.

  

  Anohni
  • Work