Anthony Hemingway Quotes

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

Anthony Hemingway

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• I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Theatre
  • Wonderful
  • Directors

• Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • High
  • Education
  • Law

• I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Years
  • Vanity

• Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Hope
  • Down
  • Unknown

• Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • People
  • Good
  • Best

• I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Looking

• The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Actions

• The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Best
  • Spirit

• I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for a little league team.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Live
  • Age

• Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Believe

• Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time

• Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

  

  Lenny Bruce
  • People
  • Long
  • Truth

• It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • Progress

• I have been very lucky - all the jobs I've done have been with lovely people. In fact, I've been on many where I've just laughed uncontrollably the whole time.

  

  Lucy Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• Fidel Castro's most scandalous show trial was not mounted against a political figure but against a writer: Heberto Padilla. In 1971, after 38 days of detention, Mr. Padilla was forced to 'confess' at the Cuban writers' union to the charges of 'subversive activities.'

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Political

• I think, when I meet a person, in general, it's not my habit to conclude anything about people. Not completely. Even people you know well constantly remain open.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • People
  • Habit

• Although it shouldn't be, men behaving badly is sort of an occupational hazard for those working in Washington.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Men

• We are going to mint new astronauts from all communities. We want to influence public policy and opinion... by changing the mindset.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Opinion
  • Mindset

• But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.

  

  Don McLean
  • Good
  • Song

• As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.

  

  Abraham Foxman
  • Education
  • Crime
  • United States

• With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

  

  Anthony Hemingway