Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else’s hands. Rem Koolhaas Read Quote
What’s interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there’s a straight man, and then there’s the funny guy. And with Laurel and Hardy, they’re both the funny guy. Christopher Guest Read Quote
You know, when you have a father who’s pretty well known but you don’t see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people. Norah Jones Read Quote
I always knew I wanted to be in films but didn’t want anyone to taunt my parents. So I excelled in studies. I was a topper in school and college, so when I decided to become a model, people said, ‘Oh your daughter is modeling,’ so at least my parents could say, ‘Yeah but she also came first in class.’ Anushka Sharma Read Quote
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. J. G. Ballard Read Quote
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see. William Wycherley Read Quote
Every child has played video games growing up and played WWE games. To be part of a video game, it’s an unbelievable experience. Finn Balor Read Quote
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. Rita Dove Read Quote
