Robert Gottlieb Quotes

When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.

Robert Gottlieb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 29, 1931

Topics

ActionYouFollowAlwaysNotesRead

Now I tell my mom, I go, 'Mom, you know when I was a kid and you told me to turn off the television and go outside and play?' I'd be like, 'You literally were hurting my career when you did that. You literally stopped me from doing now, what I do for a living.'

Joel McHale

MeMomDoingYouCareerPlay

When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

Anita Hill

ChangeMyselfThinkBeyondAnything

Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth.

Stephen Baldwin

TruthMeLovingKnowImportantMost

You don't have to know about 'Hippolytus' to listen to 'Tragedy.'

Julia Holter

YouTragedyKnowListenAbout

Sometimes I feel that in religious content, religious drama, it's almost told like a tale, like an account of facts, and in 'A.D. The Bible Continues,' it's drama, it's real drama that we like to see on TV today, seeing the characters struggle and doubt and be completely in conflict with each other, kind of like 'House of Cards.'

Juan Pablo Di Pace

TodayStruggleConflictBibleFacts

I called up and said, 'Dad, I won a MacArthur.' My father goes: 'I always thought your sister would win that,' and I said, 'Dad, just say congratulations and keep your private thoughts private.' At that point he laughed, then burst into tears, and it was obvious that he was so happy and proud.

Bonnie Bassler

FatherHappyThoughtsSisterWin

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

KindAlwaysFictionDocumentaryEven

Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches of helicopters at a time when they weren't even invented!

Pranav Mistry

TimeYouKnowEngineerPainterEven

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

Susanna Moore

WritingMoreAlwaysPointSomething

One time I got fan mail that was from Africa. It's really neat.

Scarlett Pomers

TimeAfricaMailGotFanReally

A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.

Mark Walport

ShortElectricityAnythingHoldOff

There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending to punch one another, competing over who can utter the grossest and most profane personal insults imaginable - this struck me as the very apex of human social exchange.

Lynn Coady

FriendshipTimeFocusMeEating

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