“Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.” WellsCountryCharacterArtistEnergyPayMistakeAcceptingStyleWillingMaterialsPersonalitySucceedPrejudiceWell BeingSpokesSensationsGreat ArtFanaticismGreat ArtistPay The Price Author:Cyril Connolly
“I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I'm willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I could do a good job with the right material.” IfsThinkingJobsOpportunityActingGoneWillingMaterialsVery HappyGood JobBugs Author:Stephen Lang
“In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith.” PeopleWellsSeemsAgeCertainOrderNumbersWillingMaterialsComfortTradeGrantedWell BeingConsumptionEconomistRapture Book:The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability Source: The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability
“Comedy can't live within my second-guesses, so I started doing new material. Sometimes I bombed. But you have to be willing to if you want to move forward and stay vital. It's like people who take pride in not having a computer. I'm all, "Great, don't learn new things! Your brain is full!"” PeopleIfsWantSometimesMovingBrainComedyWillingMaterialsPrideComputerMoving ForwardNew Things Author:Sarah Silverman
“I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows.” KnowsMightSongRecordsWillingMaterialsCome UpGods Will Author:Leonard Cohen
“I don't think it's unfair to have writers. I think if you're going to do a roast on television, as if you were doing a play or you were reading a script of a movie, you would have the best possible material. And those are the people who score, the people who are willing to listen to the roasting experts and then come out there and own that material.” PeopleIfsThinkingPlayReadingTelevisionWillingMaterialsScriptsExpertsScoreUnfairRoasting Author:Jeff Ross