Melvin Maddocks Quotes

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

Melvin Maddocks

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ArtWorldChooseBackTurnMeans

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ImaginationNothingMoreTasteThan

I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

Joel Osteen

GodFightSayWillTryBattles

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

Michael Feinstein

MusicPeopleCareNameNumbersWho

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

Lou Reed

MusicChallengeYouWhateverOut

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.

Antonio Tabucchi

AestheticPoliticalDoubtPerfect

When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.

Alfred Molina

JobCrazyThinkLookBackCareer

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

William Gibson

FuturePeoplePresentEnoughWrite

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Sydney Smith

LiveGreatTimeMenPeopleLift

My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.

Sung Kang

RacismLaughYouBeliefSystemAway

There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story.

Susanna Hoffs

StoryThinkWorthSaidSomething

I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.

Peter Capaldi

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We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

Penn Jillette

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