quotes about Literal

“I have told somebody in court that 'I understand yours is the most important case in the world, and I'm trying to treat it as the most important case in the world, but five minutes from now I'm going to be dealing with the next person's most important case in the world.' For every litigant, theirs is the most important case.”

“I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career.”

“The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.”

“Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why”

“When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.”

“I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient.”

“Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.”

Source : "The Mystic Word" by Adam Kirsch, www.newyorker.com. October 9, 2006.

“Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?”

“I was always an outsider, proud of being an outsider. I always reveled in the outsiders.”

Source : "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wbaa.org. September 3, 2013.

“I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated-the right to help myself in the absence of help from anywhere else.”