Anita Diament Quotes

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.

Anita Diament

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 27, 1951

Topics

LoveBeautifulHistorySmartWriting

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

Jill Lepore

HistoryGenerationMouthDownSay

'Hedwig' is unabashedly analog.

John Cameron Mitchell

AnalogUnabashedly

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

John Grierson

TruthHeartLieRepetitionParadox

I'm not a fan of fiction that's totally hopeless.

Jeff Vandermeer

HopelessFictionFanTotally

If I'm doing an event, if it's a charity event, where it's a walk-around event, where I gotta put a thousand small plates out in the course of a four-hour event, I gotta make sure I can do something that I know I can produce, that's going to be consistent and good all night long.

Tom Colicchio

GoodNightSmallCharityDoingLong

It's odd because some actors are very scared of comedians.

Robert Webb

ScaredComediansBecauseOddSome

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Michelangelo

LifeDeathHandSameMasterBeen

I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

TimeMyselfBeardGrowClothesKnow

First of all, the American people are inundated with advertisement after advertisement of you buy, buy, buy. You've got to have the latest thing. The iPad 1 isn't any good anymore, you've got to have the iPad 2. The iPhone 4, now you've got to have iPhone 4S. Now you've got to have the 5b, now you've got to have the 6c.

Michael Moore

GoodPeopleAmericanYouNowFirst

Really, voice-over is great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.

Diedrich Bader

WorkGreatCameraPaidMuchReally

These audiences are so damn smart, way smarter than the studios give them credit for.

Dean Devlin

SmartCreditDamnWayGiveSmarter

Every place you go to, they have their own little flair.

Brantley Gilbert

YouPlaceGoLittleOwnEvery

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