Regina Spektor Quotes

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

Regina Spektor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: February 18, 1980

Topics

GreatPeopleWritingGiftLearnYou

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

John B. S. Haldane

UniverseMy OwnOwnSuspicionOnly

For me as a Welsh actor, Richard Burton is one of my biggest idols. And I've got so many: Peter O'Toole, Laurence Olivier and Oliver Reed. If they got 'Hunky Dory' and 'Citadel' offered to them, they would do completely different jobs on both of them.

Aneurin Barnard

MeActorGotDifferentWouldIdols

I don't want to replace anyone, especially Charlie Sheen.

John Stamos

WantReplaceAnyoneCharlie Sheen

I listen to Jay-Z, Nelly, Nas, Ludacris and all the young kids out there. I listen to them, and I have mad respect for them.

Stephanie Mills

RespectMadYoungListenOutKids

Russian writers enjoy almost sacred status.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

EnjoyStatusSacredAlmostRussian

It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.

Tom Wolfe

LifePowerWordsI AmAnimalMe

Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.

Mary Ellen Mark

WorkOpportunityDoneSometimesFilm

A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.

Mitch Kapor

BusinessMedicalPracticePerformance

It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you also want to be true to the source material.

Corey Stoll

ChallengePeopleBookYouBe True

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

Ariel Pink

PainSandAliveBeyondMeanCastles

It is not the position, but the disposition.

Susan Sontag

PositionDisposition

I did a lot of commercials early on, and I remember the first commercial I ever got was for a product called Funyuns. I had to eat these chips for, like, 12 hours straight.

Paula Garces

RememberEarlyProductFirstEat

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