Idiosyncrasies Quotes - Page 3

• Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.

  James David Barber

  President, Firsts, Facts

  "On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency". Book by Mark Hertsgaard, 1988.

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• With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

  Guido Molinari

  Lying, Expression, Differences

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• The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to be unalterable. Love, in spite of all rational knowledge to the contrary, is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

  John Cowper Powys

  Believe, Miracle, Culture

  "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 170, 1929.

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• I watch a lot of different films. A lot of different performances and I find a lot of little things from the films or things that actors do or people in real life who have behaviors or idiosyncrasies that I like or find interesting and I try to remember that. And then I'll do a prayer. I'll do a prayer to ask the character or the spirit of the character to come and visit me. And let's work together.

  Wesley Snipes

  Prayer, Real, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• Age is as much an asset for character players as it is for good wine. Human experiences, both good and bad, leave their marks on one's face and bearing. A few lines on the face and a few gray hairs coupled with the idiosyncrasies an actor adopts throughout life help out round out the actor's personality. So far as I'm concerned, the older a character actor gets, the firmer his position is.

  Strother Martin

  Wine, Character, Player

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must put myself to the same, old test: "can I do their texts justice?" I've translated twenty-one books, and except for three commissions, I "hand-picked" all my authors on the basis of whether my own peculiar idiosyncrasies would complement their own.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Book, Hands, Justice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Voice, Personality, Splendid

  "Writing Lessons From the Madly Prolific Joyce Carol Oates". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. September 10, 2016.

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• Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to abandon the idiosyncrasy of some other culture or ethnic tradition. The great achievement of this last period is that we have been slowly, sometimes reluctantly, yet steadily, learning the art of living with differences.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Art, Fighting, Other Cultures

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• As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief, you have to figure out what makes them a thief. Whatever the prevailing idiosyncrasy is, I have to find it in the script.

  Octavia Spencer

  Character, Thieves, Actors

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• To some extent, we all have quirks or idiosyncrasies, and some geniuses, because of how bright they are and how focused they are, may have liberal eccentricities, but they're not at a disabling level.

  Darold Treffert

  Genius, Levels, May

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• All these think tank experts in Washington at the Woodrow Wilson Center say, "It's really, really a dangerous thing. It's just not right. The president of the United States should never, ever make his first foreign trip to the Middle East! Never, ever. Because it's too fraught with potential disaster. Because President Trump clearly is not sophisticated enough to know the idiosyncrasies, the customs, and the requirements." That's right, no president ever has. Do you know that there has never by a direct flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to Tel Aviv until Donald Trump did it? Never.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, President, Flight

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I underwent a whole process of slowly letting go of idiosyncrasies and habits and embellishments and everything extraneous to the essentials that I'm unwilling to let go of. I never dreamed that I would be making black-and-white paintings with so little embellishment. But it's been liberating in many ways to let go of that and yet see what I did want to retain.

  Caio Fonseca

  Letting Go, Painting, Habit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like Billy Beane for the fact that he - his idiosyncrasies, that he can't watch the games without getting too emotional, that he often has food down his shirt, that he tends to break a few chairs now and then. I mean, these things make him human.

  Brad Pitt

  Emotional, Games, Watches

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I think the more people you add on stage, the more locked it things become. Whereas fewer members on stage gets the audience to notice any small idiosyncrasy or unique moment that one of the three people onstage is having. It also means that mistakes are accentuated, but to good affect generally if you are that type of band.

  Chris Cain

  Mistake, Mean, Unique

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• In the transcribing and the editing, you want some retention of how the person speaks - you don't want to edit out all of the hesitations and idiosyncrasies. And to get people to say something they've never said before. That's big.

  Sheila Heti

  Editing, People, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Individuality is vitally important. When people start to lose their individuality is when I believe they start to lose themselves. I think children are born with this message, and it shouldn't be taken away from them. I hope they walk away with it after seeing the film, and adults too. And I notice it also with myself, because the older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

  Brittany Murphy

  Children, Believe, Taken

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a structured story and retain idiosyncrasy.

  Peter Jackson

  Important, Stories, Film

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Artist, Sick

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual style are like windows into the singer's heart.

  Renee Fleming

  Heart, Perfection, Style

  Renee Fleming (2005). “The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer”, p.151, Penguin

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• Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Art, Inspiration

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Should Have, Numbers, Abbreviations

  Guy Kawasaki (1990). “The Macintosh Way”, HarperCollins

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• It's often pointed out that in Cuban cinema there are too many comedies, but a sense of humor is so much part of the Cuban idiosyncrasy. Curiously, the films that have been censored the most have been humorous.

  Fernando Perez

  Humorous, Cinema, Comedy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I was starting out, it seemed like there were so many girls who were known by their first names, who were unique, who all had idiosyncrasies and characteristics that made them individual. Those girls stuck around; you'd work with them season after season. But now it's completely different.

  Marc Jacobs

  Girl, Unique, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.

  K. D. Lang

  Who I Am, Embrace, Brittany

  "'I'm mistaken for a man every day'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2008.

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