Quotes About Author

The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible.

Dembele likes to take players on. He's a dribbler and a power player who likes to break into space; he has the ability to do this. He has a lot of virtues.

The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.

I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry and courtly virtues.

Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator.

'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.

Physical studies of DNA had, of course, been under way for some years before analysis of virus particles began.

The whole reason I like these virus movies is because I read 'The Stand' when I was in junior high and thought it was the greatest book I'd ever read.

To be concerned about immigration and the economy is not racist, but I do think there is a virus of racism that runs through Ukip.

If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.

I don't know; we'll see what happens with Brexit. If they make it so that you can't travel any more without a visa, I'm going to have to leave the country, stay in the E.U., and probably change my citizenship.

There's a degree to which music bypasses our rational brain and accesses our emotional core in a way that's really visceral and allows you to make a strong impression on people without necessary delivering information.

I can't imagine writing a screenplay where I didn't feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material.

I don't really begin with ideas about genre. I certainly wrote a gothic novel, 'The Keep,' that conformed to and, in some ways, played with every convention I knew of to work with in the gothic, but the way I came to it was very instinctive and visceral.

'Ramayan' was my first show which propelled me as an actor and helped me gain visibility.

For all of the incredible messages I've received about how my visibility is helping people, those people who I follow on social media still receive daily death threats and the most derogatory, inhumane vitriol.

The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from living in a white supremacist culture.

Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.

A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.