Quotes About Interpretation

man's lesson is another man's tale, but often, a man's tale can be another's lesson.

One man's lesson is another man's tale, but often, a man's tale can be another's lesson.

Her definition of cheating and his was always different.

Kad kažu da je nešto duga pri?a, ljudi obi?no žele re?i da je pri?a kratka, ali toliko glupa da ju se stide ispri?ati.

Vanessa insisted that film was exactly like poetry. Nothing necessarily had to happen; you just had to feel something.

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

Did he really believe God wrote stories that were open to one explanation only? A story that knew but one explanation could hardly be interesting and was certainly not worth the trouble of remembering.

It's only a book. But what it means to write a book.

Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it. If

He always wore dark-blue suits, but I made his suit light blue because he did not feel dark blue to me.

How can we expect to know everything about God? He looked at me, his eyes narrowing. I call that ambiguity, I said. Riddles, puzzles, double meanings, lost possibilities, the dark side to the light, the light side to the darkness, different perspectives on the same thing. Nothing in this whole world has only one side to it. Everything is like a kaleidoscope. That's what I'm trying to capture in my art. That's what I mean by ambiguity.

an artist, too, must see the world whole, he must somehow learn to see during the blinks, he must see where no one else can see, he must see the connections, the betweennesses in the world. Even if the connections are ugly and evil, the artist must learn to see and record them.

Mon maître le lecteur, que ceci soit pour vous un avertissement ! Ne dites jamais que vous savez ce que vaut l'aune de telle histoire. Souvent cette histoire si gaie, si folle, si amusante, aura germé toute gonflée de larmes, de faim, de misères, dans l'esprit de celui qui l'écrira plus tard.

For no matter what the factual data were, all the books written about Blacks by their conquerors reflected the conquerors viewpoints.

For no matter what the factual data were, all the books written about Blacks by their conquerors reflected the conquerors viewpoints. Nothing else should have been expected.

My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn't accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard people's thoughts. Of course, she couldn't admit I was literally hearing people's thoughts because that just didn't fit into her world.

but I was sure he'd been talking about the home of someone white, because he'd said, All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.

Email to Eric from Bill: GFY. Let me know if you need help with that abbreviation Sheriff. Bill

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh nor print any marks upon you. Some people interpret the passage to mean that piercings and tattoos are marks of the devil.

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

As an actor, I have always felt, everything is available in the script. If there is anything you feel the script lacks, you can have a discussion with the director and point out those.

At Rada, I was cast as Lady Macbeth and tried to do it as seriously as I could, but people still started laughing. I just think they find my face too funny.

You've never seen anything until you've seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he's so... masculine.

There will always be kids in every generation that understand that Lady Gaga is not music, it's theater.