Eric Rohmer Quotes

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

Eric Rohmer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: March 21, 1920 - January 11, 2010

Topics

LifeThinkThingsOrdinaryMost

My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.

Jo Brand

PoliticalArmyGoKnowBrightShe

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

John Cusack

GreatHouseSummerCitizenMovies

I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.

Andrew Bird

TimeMyselfTogetherMeHelpYou

To play against Serena in a final is something special. You know you must play your best tennis.

Angelique Kerber

BestYouPlayKnowSpecialTennis

Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

DanceLooksLeavingUpOwnAwkward

It worried me when Britney snogged Madonna. It looked a bit fake. It screamed 'We're in this for the money.

Simon Le Bon

MoneyMeFakeMadonnaWorriedBit

Some of my most enjoyable moments as a writer have come while conjuring a meet cute.

Mary Kay Andrews

CuteMomentsMeetComeWriterMost

My stand-up has always been very character-based. I'm not really the kind of person that's like, 'Hey, here's what's on my mind! Tip your waitress!' I would create the jokes based on the character I was playing. It was always a performance-based thing for me.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

CharacterMindMeCreatePerson

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

Juan Williams

ViolenceBigLatinosBlacksCities

Harlem has always been the nexus of music, politics, culture, criminal figures.

Cheo Hodari Coker

MusicCulturePoliticsAlwaysBeen

Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

ActionTransformationKeyQuestions

I never hitched my wagon to anyone, so what I achieved over the years was done with only my results on the field.

Claudio Ranieri

ResultsDoneNeverOverYearsOnly

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