#makes

As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive. ↗

— Sarah Caldwell

#approach #certainly #different #different points #director

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#him #i #know #little #little brother

It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind... we're in it together. ↗

— Chick Corea

#brotherhood #creating #creation #difficult #dislike

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#demands #display #few #few men #grief

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. ↗

— Lorraine Hansberry

#exceptional #inevitably #lonely #make #makes

Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us. ↗

— Terence Young

#belly #instead #into #laugh #like

Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#america #approach #badly #degree #dependent

Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#acting #being #being honest #being real #better

Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda. ↗

— John Yoo

#attacks #death #deprive #detect #fight

It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#blue #even #everyone #hard #harder