Immediacy Quotes

70 Immediacy quotes by 64 unique authors

I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor.… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past. — Kenneth Tynan
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. — Eugene Field
I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but… — Malcolm Turnbull
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions. — Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation or immediacy to… — Mary Anne Radmacher
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy. — Mary Anne Radmacher
Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it,… — Paul McGann
I wanted to make it as anonymous as a photo. But it was perhaps also the wish for perfection, the unapproachable, which then means loss… — Gerhard Richter
Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric… — Irving Howe
What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they… — Tom Cruise
I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or… — Nick Denton
But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience… — Donald Judd
I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented.… — Lukas Haas
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most… — Baz Luhrmann
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence… — Ansel Adams
The immediacy of public interaction is just unbeatable. — Nick Kroll
The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating… — Vern Rutsala
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be… — Abraham Flexner
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a… — Muhammad Iqbal
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories.… — Chuck Palahniuk
My Heart I'm not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time, I don't prefer one "strain" to another. I'd… — Frank O'Hara
I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps… — Doris Lessing
And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a… — Edmond Rostand
That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy… — Barack Obama

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