Arthur Miller Quotes
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
Quotes to Explore
-
All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
-
They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
-
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
-
In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
-
I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
-
I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
-
You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
-
I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
-
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
-
Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
-
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
-
I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
-
On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
-
It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
-
Habit is a great deadener.
-
If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
-
The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
-
I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
-
I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
-
You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that.
-
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.
-
If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.
-
As is by now well known, attempts to form social judgments by aggregating individual expressed preferences always lead to the possibility of paradox.
-
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
