Quotes & Sayings About Bastille Prison

I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived ... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert. — George Gershwin

Exactly, I repeated myself. I believe we do it all the time. We always take up certain elements again. How can it be avoided? An actor's voice always has the same timbre and, consequently, he repeats himself. It is the same for a singer, a painter ... There are always certain things that come back, for they are part of one's personality, of one's style. If these things didn't come into play, a personality would be so complex that it would become impossible to identify it.
It is not my intention to repeat myself, but in my work there should certainly be references to what I have done in the past. Say what you will, but The Trial is the best film I ever made ... I have never been so happy as when I made this film.
(talking about directing, The Trial (1962) - from Orson Welles: Interviews (book)) — Orson Welles

Accept that you are that - you are the matchless, eternal reality. That's true seeing, true humility. — Frederick Lenz

So, in the first round, we have an expandable duck versus a useless metal cylinder. Our contestants are running very close indeed."
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"Judging has been difficult. We have weighed the merits of Junior's boiling sludge, slag heap and useless metal cylinder against the chain-mail waistcoat, bulletproof tie and Expando-Duck. It was a close call. — Rick Riordan

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish. — Gwyneth Paltrow

And I wrote you.
Volumes.
Volumes. — Khaled Hosseini

Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me ... — Anthony Bourdain

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers. — Eddie Floyd