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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

• Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Pain
  • Forever
  • Thought

• 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 was a rugby player, I was a hockey player. You know, I just love to challenge myself, and I love to compete.

  

  Jason Priestley
  • Player
  • Challenge
  • Hockey

• Learning Gardens are outdoor classrooms, engaging learning environments where kids learn about math, science, entrepreneurship, and above all else, real food.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Science

• We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Work
  • Giving

• It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Power

• 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