Roland Barthes Quotes

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.

Roland Barthes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: November 12, 1915 - March 26, 1980

Topics

LifeFunProfessionalPrettyBeen

For the most part, yeah, I'm happy with my body, but there are days when I'm like, 'Ugh! Really? Why is it so hard to fit into my jeans?' That's when I say to myself, 'I look this way because I'm supposed to. If we all looked the same, we'd be boring.'

Jennifer Love Hewitt

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When you are playing somebody who did exist, and there is good source material on them, whether it is a biography or archives or experts, you would be stupid not to delve into them. But there is a point in the process where you leave the books alone, and instead, you focus on the script and creating your version.

Andrew Gower

GoodAloneFocusStupidProcessYou

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

Stephen Covey

BusinessUncertaintyOne ThingThing

When I was in the 9th grade, on Halloween night, when you're supposed to go and out and burn your city, my mom made me go to 'Cirque du Soleil.' I was kicking and screaming. This girl came out onstage, and I was instantly mesmerized. I dropped out of school and became obsessed with her. I saw the show, like, 70 times.

Troy Garity

GirlSchoolCityMeMomNight

'The Missing Picture' is about my story and my parents. Before this film, I never said 'I' in a film, so it is very personal.

Rithy Panh

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With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.

Mary McDonnell

ExperiencePeopleImpactPlayBeyond

Los Angeles is an uncanny place to live. It has many science fiction qualities. For example, when I'm standing in line at the supermarket and I recognise the person in front of me, but I can't figure out how I know them. Suddenly, I realise I saw them in some random commercial six years ago.

Martine Syms

LiveScienceMeRandomPlacePerson

The Bible tells us that we're supposed to leave an inheritance for children.

Marvin Sapp

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I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.

Johnny Evers

I AmCareerMy OwnOwnMadeHigher

If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the comforts and luxuries, if not many of the necessaries of life, considerably diminished.

Dorothea Dix

LifeFreedomFindThingsDanger

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

Chris Bohjalian

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I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

Clifford Geertz

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