Stacy Schiff Quotes

I don't think there is ever objective biography. Our vision of our subject is always shaped by who we are. So I do, of course, think the biographer's view is always something to keep in mind.

Stacy Schiff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 26, 1961

Topics

VisionMindThinkViewAlwaysKeep

I've always gotten along best with artists.

Jerry Hall

BestAlwaysAlongArtistsGotten

I don't know how not to share.

Jenny Mollen

KnowShareHow

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

John Drinkwater

PoetryKnowAnythingPoetMayFar

I look back at my filmography, and I'm pretty jazzed with the stuff I've been part of. They're all movies I'd like to see.

Jeff Bridges

LookBackMoviesSeePrettyStuff

I'm interested in working with groups of actors to tell complicated stories about what's happening to people, and that's because I came out of the theatre where I worked in ensembles, and I really loved that.

John Wells

PeopleTheatreLovedComplicatedOut

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

John Zorn

PeopleEdgeMatterSpontaneous

Have you ever noticed how hell-bent liberals are at making the United States seem inferior to other countries... to any country?

Steven Crowder

YouCountrySeemUnitedInferior

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

TimeDoingWellWasteWaste Of Time

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Joseph Addison

LifeNatureGriefManEnoughCruel

What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility.

Arthur Levitt

ResponsibilityRecognitionIndividual

A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments.

Phil Klay

GreatInfluenceChoicesMoments

While I was writing 'The Big Girls,' I had to take a big breath each morning and calm myself sufficiently to once again enter that world. But friends tell me that it is the only thing that really interests me. They say that I like to be upset.

Susanna Moore

MorningMyselfMeWritingWorldSay

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