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Jenkin Lloyd Jones Quotes

Introduced to this world in Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, Wales, November 14, 1843, I celebrated my first anniversary by landing at Castle Garden, in New York City.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: November 14, 1843 - September 12, 1918

Topics

Anniversary New York City World New

The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.

Amiri Baraka

Black America Artist Role Aid Knows

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

Ruth Ozeki

Power Light Reality Possibilities

I like light green, sometimes red is fun to look at, not a fan of yellow, unless it's in a rainbow or on a coffee mug or on a happy face.

Chris Kattan

Light Coffee Rainbow Fun Red Yellow

In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.

Chuck Palahniuk

Humor People Drama React Way Things

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.

Bruce Beresford

Music Movies Opera Emotional Force

The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital.

Audra McDonald

Society Humanity Important Touch Way

I would love to write a script where the main character is a woman. I know I can direct a film where the main character is a woman. I cannot write that film.

Philippe Falardeau

Love Character Woman I Can Know

I think 'No' is a very powerful word in our business that is very hard to use early on in your career. But I also think I was pretty arrogant when I was younger... I used that word maybe too much, but it did help me with finding roles that I did like.

Peter Dinklage

Business Me Think Help Powerful

I'm enjoying my years, I'm enjoying my life, I'm enjoying my family. I'm just happy - a happy person.

Sharon Stone

Life Family Happy My Life Person

The acting thing is the side benefit of becoming a little bit well known with my music.

Tyler Hilton

Music Acting Little Side Well Known

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

Thomas Dolby

Song Guitar Down Top Over Line

When I was a kid, I played the piano for six years, and all my family are musicians.

Tina Maze

Family Musicians Kid Years Piano