Arzner Dorothy Quotes & Sayings

Everything's stolen. Everything precious - be it a kiss, or be it James Brown - gets misappropriated to the aid of the advertising executives. So, an act of reclamation, somewhere else to be: that's what I want my music to be. Somewhere you can step into. A place. — David Gray

My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened to quit each time I didn't get my way, but no one ever let me walk out. — Dorothy Arzner

Funny thing about true happiness, though. You never know it's inside you until someone pulls it out. — Meghan Quinn

When I went to work in a studio, I took my pride and made a nice little ball of it and threw it right out the window. — Dorothy Arzner

This is why it's perilous to ignore a librarian. — Jeffe Kennedy

Be specific in your prayer requests of GOD. — Benny Hinn

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg into an electric fan. — Oliver Herford

I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge. — M. E. W. Sherwood

I would like the [film] industry to be more aware of what they're doing to influence people for good and for bad. There's no doubt that we're affected by our environment — Dorothy Arzner

Each one of these bodies (art-works Arp made) certainly signifies something, but it is only once there is nothing left for me to change that I begin to look for its meaning, that I give it a name. — Hans Arp

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin. — Harold Bloom

I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did. — Joan Crawford

With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition. — Hanna Rosin