The printed page conveys information and commitment and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.
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Gwen Stefani – I try not to be but I’m super-neuro…
I try not to be but I’m super-neurotic about diet. I’m neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I’m like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I’m super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.
Shay Mitchell – We all have to find beauty within …
We all have to find beauty within us as opposed to just our exterior.
George Sewell – The coward sneaks to death the bra…
The coward sneaks to death the brave live on.
Mark Zandi – Past experience with fiscal austerity…
Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy’s long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.
William Shakespeare – The stroke of death is as a …
The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch which hurts and is desired.
Nastia Liukin – I brought a lot of my own pieces o…
I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.
Mitch Daniels – No enterprise small or large publi…
No enterprise small or large public or private can remain self-governing let alone successful so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.
Vera Farmiga – Editing yourself is like an irksome…
Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You’ve got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I’ve got my Freud mixed up. It’s just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.
Stephen Colbert – I just think Rosa Parks was over…
I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked she got famous for breaking the law.
Cat Power – After my second-to-last record ‘The Gr…
After my second-to-last record ‘The Greatest’ I had gone on tour for a while and I didn’t play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of – it’s not self-esteem or whatever or anger toward myself – but disappointed in myself that I hadn’t been challenging myself to learn musically.
Marcus Tullius Cicero – Hatred is inveterate anger…
Hatred is inveterate anger.
John Cusack – There’s also some element of coming …
There’s also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America but I remember as being a very very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air the punk rock movement made sense.
David Bailey – I left school on my 15th birthday….
I left school on my 15th birthday.
Isabel Allende – The fact that I am a writer comes…
The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela where I couldn’t find a place for myself for years and years.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh – I have been overcome by th…
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together those early mornings setting out those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us still holding the last light.
Loretta Lynn – You can’t be halfway in this busine…
You can’t be halfway in this business. If you don’t meet the fans you lose all you’ve got.
Emile M. Cioran – Life inspires more dread than de…
Life inspires more dread than death – it is life which is the great unknown.
Ian Mcewan – What reader wants to be told what att…
What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
Twyla Tharp – My mother was a dominant force in my…
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity and there really was no judgment.
M. Night Shyamalan – When you say ‘fear of the unk…
When you say ‘fear of the unknown’ that is the definition of fear fear is the unknown fear is what you do not know and it’s genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we’re not familiar with it and that keeps you safe.
Lisa Marie Presley – I’m trying to have my own thi…
I’m trying to have my own thing and I don’t know if it’s even possible. I didn’t realize so many people actually think I’m trying to be like my dad. I read comments like ‘She’s no Elvis.’ I’m not trying to be. I never set out to be.
Mia Wasikowska – As an actor you have to wait for …
As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you so you’re relying on the business.
Aristotle – You will never do anything in this wor…
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Tom Wolfe – This is the artist then life’s hungry …
This is the artist then life’s hungry man the glutton of eternity beauty’s miser glory’s slave.
Alfred Lord Tennyson – There lives more faith in h…
There lives more faith in honest doubt believe me than in half the creeds.