Arthur Miller Quotes

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down…. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.

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• Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Job
  • Health

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Today
  • Powerful
  • Professional

• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • High
  • Day

• Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Most
  • Cells
  • DNA

• Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Work
  • Done
  • You

• Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Creativity
  • Go
  • Letting Go

• 'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Great
  • Love
  • She

• Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • You
  • Boredom
  • Limit

• I enjoy money.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Money
  • Enjoy

• I'm a fake intellectual.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Fake
  • Intellectual

• I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Me

• The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its inception as a city. I'm always excited about the possibility of what might happen. That's what drives us, and I think that's the spirit of New Orleans and the spirit of jazz.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Think
  • City
  • Inspired

• People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • Good
  • Daughter

• There are ideas within Buddhism that are so incredible as to render the dogma of the virgin birth plausible by comparison.

  

  Sam Harris

• You can sense their anger before they even say a word.

  

  Ben Carson

• The intelligence of the universe is social.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Universe

• The East will be seen to rush to the West and the South to the North in confusion round and about the universe, with great noise and trembling or fury.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Great
  • Universe

• All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of familiarity.

  

  Max Richter
  • Music
  • Question

• I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission.

  

  Elizabeth Meriwether
  • People
  • Writing
  • Women

• With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates

• I have an obsession with details and pattern.

  

  Alice Temperley

• A question that often comes up at times of strategic transformation is, should you pursue a highly focused approach, betting everything on one strategic goal, or should you hedge? ... Mark Twain hit it on the head when he said, Put all of your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Up
  • Question
  • Goal

• The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down…. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.

  

  Arthur Miller