Variety Quotes - Page 7

• As an actor, variety is the spice of life. I love theatre… it's what I enjoy the most. But a bit of TV, a bit of film, a bit of stage - what more could you ask for?

  Max Irons

  Theatre, Variety Is The Spice Of Life, Tvs

  "Red Riding Hood - Max Irons interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think that variety is the key to our success. It is what makes us [artists] different, and long may that continue.

  Piers Morgan

  Artist, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• As an actor it's like, go with whatever excites you as an actor. What are you're going to invest yourself in as a character? What are you going to get into? Have a variety of characters to play.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Character, Play, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Art, Nice, Independent

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide variety of audiences. He could do the bawdy plays and the humor and the clowns-as you know, because you're a wonderful Stephano-that speaks to the populace, the masses, the groundlings, whatever.

  Julie Taymor

  Artist, Play, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I mean I don't think it got me interested in acting. I think it might be what makes it so that I can have the idea of the variety of people in the world, different incomes. That helps. When you're going to play someone it's interesting and nice to see experiences that aren't like yours. But there's always the remarkable similarity of all people.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from other languages: flexibility, and inclusiveness, is what makes English great; and diversity is what keeps it healthy and growing, exuberantly regenerating itself with rich new forms and usages.

  Donna Tartt

  Diversity, Healthy, Growing

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.

  Robert Barron

  Unique, Simple, White

  Robert Barron (2011). “Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith”, Image

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• Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heaven, Hell, Display

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains.

  Noam Chomsky

  Justice, Democracy, Cost

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• Macroscopic objects, as we see them all around us, are governed by a variety of forces, derived from a variety of approximations to a variety of physical theories. In contrast, the only elements in the construction of black holes are our basic concepts of space and time. They are, thus, almost by definition, the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Space, Perfect, Black

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• The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.

  Harry Partch

  Horse, Operations, Music Is

  Harry Partch, Thomas McGeary (2000). “Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos”, p.174, University of Illinois Press

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• There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

  Mark Twain

  Spring, Weather, Twenties

  Address at New England Society's Seventy-First Annual Dinner, New York, N.Y., 22 Dec. 1876

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• We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Men, Behaviour, Infinite

  "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 34, 1957.

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• Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped tightly around our hearts and minds.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Spiritual, Heart, Garden

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.21, Ballantine Books

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• The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.

  Vannevar Bush

  Real, Views, Use

  "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, www.theatlantic.com. July 1945.

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• The mountains are exceptional places for, as the natural environment is concerned, they are the concentration of the wildest possible variety of all natural phenomena and forms. They are somehow a concentration of the truth of nature or even I'd say its essence.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Essence, Mountain, Environment

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• Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, Oil, Safety

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• When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with and between everyday people. Its discourse may be productive of desire and pleasure, but popular culture is also a language in which people discuss politics, religion, ethics, and action.

  Brenda Laurel

  Artist, People, Everyday

  Brenda Laurel (2001). “Utopian Entrepreneur”, p.11, MIT Press

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• Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Suits, Great Men, Form

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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• California produces 40% of America's fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts - the kind you eat. We have had a bumper crop of the other variety, too.

  Ronald Reagan

  Vegetables, Nuts, California

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• Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models - they are essential to the advancement of our society.

  Richard Attias

  Inspiration, Role Models, Essentials

  "Africa and the Six ‘I’s: Independence, Investment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Incubation, Inspiration" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2013.

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• The joy of life is variety.

  Samuel Johnson

  Joy, Life Is, Joy Of Life

  "The Idler" No. 39. Essay by Samuel Johnson, www.gutenberg.org. January 13, 1759.

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• It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Book, Reading, Careful

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• We deal with all varieties of information. Somebody's always upset no matter what we do. We have to make a decision; otherwise there's a never-ending debate.

  Sergey Brin

  Decision, Upset, Information

  "Google Guys". Playboy Interview, kottke.org. September 2004.

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