Karen DeCrow Quotes

Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.

Karen DeCrow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 18, 1937 - June 6, 2014

Topics

HeroVillainThinkMotivationWay

As we've often said, to the world at large, Marvel looks like a giant octopus that's out to swallow the galaxy - which, by the way, we are. But we are, in fact, a rather small and intimate company.

Jeph Loeb

WorldSmallLooksSaidWayGalaxy

There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse, and anybody could die at any time.

Melissa McBride

TimeJobDieYouSecurityReal

I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I'm the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will.

Robert Smith

AgeMyselfThinkWrongPlaceWill

If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.

Robert Hewison

ChangeTodayPastCreativeLosing

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Jean Dubuffet

CreativityImaginationMeInsanity

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

Ang Lee

BeginningBabyMoviesMoreSteps

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

John Updike

WorldGloryActSeekShareAffair

The sophisticates of Java, the traders of Sumatra, the peasants from the outer islands found no common ground. During siesta time from one to five, the Islamic group met separately, the Nationalist group met separately, the Federalist and Unitarians met separately.

Sukarno

TimeGroupGroundCommonFiveFound

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Robert Anton Wilson

BecomeConservativeSingleWithout

The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

Mohamed ElBaradei

PeopleIdeasGlobalizationSecurity

I used to feel that everything I know I learned through my lifelong struggle with stuttering; I now feel this way about my damn back.

David Shields

StruggleFeelBackKnowDamnWay

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

Boyd Rice

MyselfLieCaringPeopleLuxuryUs

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