Kevin Spacey Quotes

I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

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• 'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Doing
  • Content
  • Digital

• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Live
  • Country
  • America

• Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Truth
  • Hand
  • Grip

• Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Wrong
  • Stand
  • Him

• I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.

  

  Jack Buck
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Funny

• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Past

• Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Infrastructure
  • Kenya

• The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Lost

• Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Difficult
  • Patience
  • Lie

• When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • I Can
  • Hear

• People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Important
  • Health

• Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Money
  • Doing

• In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Age
  • Alone
  • Focus

• Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Bad
  • City
  • Will

• I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Pretty
  • Negative
  • Digital

• While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.

  

  Sam Harris
  • War
  • Fear
  • Ideas

• When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Life
  • Work
  • School

• Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • House
  • Lost

• Change itself is changing. The process of evolution itself is evolving. There is a meta-evolution, or a metachange that is taking place. And in that process what you see is actually an increasing contrast between change and the eternal or the unchanging.

  

  Yasuhiko Kimura

• The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.

  

  John Wilbanks
  • Broken
  • Opposites

• Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Painting
  • Obvious
  • Landscape

• I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• For nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • She
  • Nature

• I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Teacher