"I'm proud of being a vaudevillian, the last of my line. A lot of people think my entertainment is candy-floss. Well, entertainment is too aggressive these days, all 'in your face'."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Eric Sykes

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Lines Quotes

“There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.”
“It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.”

Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2012). “Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?”, p.130, Bloomsbury Publishing
“But before all else a work of art is the creation of love. Love for the subject first and for the medium second. Love is the fundamental necessity underlying the need to create, underlying the emotion that gives it form, and from which grows the unfinished product that is presented to the world. Love is the general criterion by which the rare photograph is judged. It must contain it to be not less than the best of which the photographer is capable.”
“We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions”
“I wake up around noon, light a cigarette, get a cup of coffee, sit in the bathtub for an hour and daydream, and I usually come up with some ideas... It's a very irresponsible life. The only decisions I make are about the notes I'm writing.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I had been at the director's workshop for women at the AFI, which at the time was a great thing to do. I had always meant to direct, and for a variety of reasons that are hard to explain, I never did. I produced many things - there'll be people who tell you I directed through them - and of course I wrote. It took a divorce, a move back to New York and a kind of "now I can do anything" to say, "I really want to do this."”
“When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.”
“Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.”

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