“In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!” ShowsSpecialRussiaGatesPassportsVisaKremlin Author:Alan Parsons
“Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes them invaluable, and in other ways, repulsive. Lawyers are much more focused on rational, logical, and objective criteria to the exclusion of the emotional, subjective, and sometimes irrational reponses to the world. Moreover, lawyers like to show no emotion, and possess a particular disdain for the emotions that are found in others, which has the quality of making them seem inhuman.” WorldWaySometimesShowsSeemsFoundEmotionQualityVisionSeeingSpecialEmotionalParticularFocusedLawyerObjectivesRationalLogicalIrrationalSubjectiveCriteriaExclusionDisdainInhumanInvaluable Author:Thane Rosenbaum
“I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.” IfsWayShowsPoliticsSpecialPaintingShoesCommunistHammers Author:Pablo Picasso
“When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe great curators and their unforgettable shows - literally unforgettable because you remember every picture, every wall and every juxtaposition.” ShowsRememberSpecialWallInspiredDebtRealisingSomething SpecialUnforgettableJuxtapositionCurator Book:My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic
“I remember before I did my HBO special, Chris [Rock] screamed at me - in a loving way, but still. He was like, "You need to do 200 shows in a row and a month straight on the road before you even think about recording a special!" And I had literally booked two weeks on the road and then went right into the recording. It put me in a panic, but it also made me work harder and made me realize that everyone works differently, and that's okay.” ThinkingWayNeedsMadeStillsTwoShowsRememberRealizingWeekSpecialRocksHard WorkLike YouMonthsOkayHarderPanicTwo WeeksWork HarderHbo Author:Judd Apatow
“I had a very Italian house - the "plastic furniture you couldn't sit on" house. Did anybody have the museum house? For a kid it's traumatic. Towels you can never touch. China no one's ever gonna use. Everything is for a special occasion that never happens. My mother was waiting for the Pope to show up for dinner. Or Sinatra. Or Chachi.” UseShowsHappensKidsMotherHouseWaitingSpecialChinaDinnerOccasionsItalianMuseumsPlasticPopeFurnitureTowelsSpecial Occasion Author:Ray Romano
“Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.” MenFirstsCharacterShowsQualitySpecialGeniusMeasurementSpecial Things Author:Thomas Wentworth Higginson