What I’ve found about ‘Cinderella’ is that what it provokes in an audience is really extraordinary. It appears to be a deceptively simple tale, but I’ve heard nothing but people drawing all different things out of it. Kenneth Branagh Read Quote
The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it. Henry Mayhew Read Quote
Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky. And they fly from L.A. to New York in an airplane over this vast, expansive land where people aren’t snarky; they’re a lot more like the ‘Parks and Rec’ characters. Chris Pratt Read Quote
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. Henry Miller Read Quote
For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it’s all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that’s the definition of spectacle. Diane Paulus Read Quote
There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don’t even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don’t seem to have time now. Ellen DeGeneres Read Quote
I think my admiration is really for Belichick more than anything. As a coach, that’s the guy. He’ll go down as probably the best in the history of the game. I like poking fun at him and all that stuff, but there’s no coach I respect more than him. Rex Ryan Read Quote
You don’t have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision. Ludovico Einaudi Read Quote
The owner of one club once interrupted my set to inform me that my taxi had arrived. I don’t think he meant it to sound as cutting as it did. Josh Widdicombe Read Quote
