Urner Barry Quotes & Sayings

If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career — Kate Winslet

Even if you're playing the most well-known repertoire under the sun, I still believe you have a responsibility as an artist to tell the audience why you're playing it, what are the key aspects to it, and then throw in a bit about its historical context. — Charles Hazlewood

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. — Howard Staunton

The claim 'God does not exist' is just as much a claim to know something as saying 'God does exist,' meaning the atheist needs just as much substantiation for his claim as the theist does for his. — Scott Klusendorf

Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion. — David Friedman

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by. — Edie Falco

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. — John Buchan

The heart that loves the wicked ego creates the hated enemy. — Masanobu Fukuoka

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire. — Andrew O'Hagan

Living within artificial, reconstructed, arbitrary environments that are strictly the products of human conception, we have no way to be sure that we know what is true and what is not. We have lost context and perspective. What we know is what other humans tell us. — Jerry Mander

The life of a good man is a continual prayer. — Charlotte Lennox