“secondary ELA (English Language Arts) teachers are keenly aware of what “close reading” and the ratio of what the fiction to non-fiction… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
I think [“Shake It Off”] is awesome! It sticks in your head. I heard it one time and I was, like, singing… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
“I'm an empty page, I'm an open book, write Your story on my heart, come on and make Your mark Author of… — Francesca Battistelli Copy Share Image
Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art… — Mark Twight Copy Share Image
I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of… — Peter London Copy Share Image
“Americans have perfected the questionable art of what Suzann Mettler, a professor at Cornell University calls "the submerged state." -- making government… — Anu Partanen Copy Share Image
Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to… — Ana Mendieta Copy Share Image
“While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you… — Brother Ali Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also always surprising. And I need it in… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting,… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning.… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
For 35 years, I've said, 'I'll never go solo.' But after a period of time - and this isn't just for an… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the… — John Newton Copy Share Image
You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Remember that even if you have made a truly rotten piece of art, it may be a necessary stepping-stone to your next… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
There's an awful pressure on signed artists to make a hit song. But I never wanted to be an artist who created… — Raye Copy Share Image
I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist… — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
I just thought it made sense to call a book 'Not Garbage,' even though the majority of it was going to be… — Leo Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to want to connect with fans and to connect them to each other. I mean, there's other things that… — Allie X Copy Share Image
“The regularity of the clock was a metaphor for the accuracy of the universe. For the accuracy of God's creative achievement. So… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
“The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Folk music is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life;… — Sam Hinton Copy Share Image
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I can always tell when my mother, an artist who grew up in Switzerland, starts to feel nostalgic for home. It is… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
“Artists are nothing but expert time killers, filling up the hours by entertaining themselves. But the ones who think they're changing the… — S.P. Miskowski Copy Share Image
Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Rather than being confined to a separate dimension, martial arts should be an extension of our way of living, of our philosophies,… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image