Derderian Quotes & Sayings

I have found when I look at an audience that the expressions on the peoples' faces aren't always up to par with the sounds that they're making. A crowd can sound like they're having a good time when your eyes are closed but if you open your eyes, the looks on some of those faces don't equal the sound. — Mitch Hedberg

I believe artists should be able to step into other people's situations, contexts and cultures and work from there. If artists don't have that freedom, then, as someone has said, are we all writing our autobiographies? — Uwem Akpan

At this moment, all I was trying to do was protect the twins because years from now, I wasn't trying to be sharing our rape stories. I — Diamond Johnson

Sometimes the best cure for life's woes is a sense of humor. — Frank K. Sonnenberg

To have a big life, dream a big dream. — Debasish Mridha

Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be as precious and beautiful as the colours themselves. In fact, the colours themselves must be continuously modified and broken as part of the transition. — Kenneth Clark

You can never really, truly, understand discrimination unless you've been fuckin' ugly. Ugly people face as much, or more, discrimination than any fuckin' minority group, and they have none of the ... recourse ... You don't have any group that's going to come together and fight for your rights ... 'cause there's no unity among the ugly ... And ugly isn't even a minority! We're the fuckin' majority, and we still take the fuckin' backseat!
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Any minority would rather be called the worst racial slur according to their group than pointed out as unattractive: someone calls you a nigger, a lot of people fuckin' bunch up around you and go 'what the fuck you say to him?!'; someone calls you dog-dick-fuckin'-ugly, you wear that all by yourself. — Doug Stanhope

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. — Edmund Burke

A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work. — Terry Zwigoff

The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that. — Larry Mullen Jr.

She was tempted to ask if they were journeying with a hobbit to reclaim the Lonely Mountain. — Shannon Messenger

God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing." — Corrie Ten Boom

There is time for everything; a time to MAKE the BEST and a time to TAKE a REST ... — Israelmore Ayivor

If you see only problems, then the doors of opportunities will close. If you see only opportunities, then problems will fly away. — Debasish Mridha

This influential, yet controversial idea requires that the mixture of species on Earth at any moment acts as a collective organism that continuously (yet unwittingly) tunes Earth's atmospheric composition and climate to promote the presence of life ... But I'd bet there are some dead Martians and Venusians who advanced the same theory about their own planets a billion years ago. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson