quotes about Sheer

last updated: November 28, 2023

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
-- Carroll O'Connor

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I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.
-- Chantal Joffe

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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“It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.”
“According to Miller, Pharisee Judaism is not a religion at all, but a secret society posing as a religion, a "sect with Judaism as a rite." She cites Moses Mendelssohn who wrote "Judaism is not a religion but a Law religionized."”
“I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handily revolutionized the political, artistic and historical discourses about America. He created his particular and original language.”
“You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.”
“The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.”
“I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“One of my fun road trips was [when] a group of guys and I rented a tour bus and we started in Orlando and drove all the way around the country going to baseball games. That was an awesome trip because each night we would go to a new baseball stadium, watch a baseball game, get in the bus, wake up [in] the next city, go to another baseball game. We did this for a little while and it was great. We called that trip the Rats on the Bus and it was a fun trip.”
“I am an atheist, thanks be to God.”
“There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman. As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty, our opinions arenâ€™t needed, that we lack the gravitas necessary for our stories to matter. That personal writing by women is no more than an exercise in vanity and that we should appreciate this new world for women, sit down, and shut up.”

Source : Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.16, Random House
“We lie by not telling you things...We don't lie by telling you things that aren't true.”