Shelley Berman Quotes

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

Shelley Berman

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MusicCultureAngerSexPrivacySee

I starred in Dr. Pepper commercials and Buick ads.

Joe Piscopo

PepperCommercialsAdsStarredDr

The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.

John Nelson Darby

RespectCrossEveryCentre

Often when I finish a film I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.' And then, thank God, that feeling goes away after a month or so and I'm raring to go again.

Jeff Bridges

GodMyselfMeThank GodFeelingGo

I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.

Aminatta Forna

HeartPeopleStoryCreateTellWho

My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.

Steve Burns

ChildrenTelevisionFantasyEverybody

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

LifeImaginationThreeMoreRealUp

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

Tucker Carlson

LifePositiveTeacherSchoolBook

I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.

Tom Felton

LoveShoesExperienceDayGuitarUp

It's strange, but I remember just before I moved to Hoffenheim that I had a dream about playing in England.

Roberto Firmino

RememberDreamStrangePlayingJust

Working on the ABC movie 'Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige,'' which we filmed in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was a special pleasure, particularly because I'd played baseball in high school.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

SchoolBaseballHigh SchoolStory

In west London where I live, white people are a minority. In the area I am in, which is the borough of Brent, whites are less than 50%.

Louis Theroux

LiveI AmPeopleWhiteLondonWest

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

Anthony Trollope

WritingWayWellEasilyAlso

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