Clive Barnes Quotes

#1. Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Clive Barnes

#2. One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.

Clive Barnes

#3. I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?

Clive Barnes

#4. Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.

Andrew Lau

#5. One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

Clive Barnes

#6. Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.

Clive Barnes

#7. The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.

Clive Barnes

#8. I am convinced that anyone can be a great writer ... if he can only ... tell the naked truth about himself and other people. That, a little technique with words and the willingness to bare heart, soul and body are really all it takes.

Clive Barnes

#9. I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.

Pat Morita

#10. true wisdom always leads us to please God.

Anthony DeStefano

#11. Grief was a hell of a thing. Some days you climbed the walls and others you couldn't get out of bed. Just when you thought you might be pulling through, something would punch you in the gut and you'd be flat on your back again.

Brenda Rothert

#12. In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.

Rani Mukerji

#13. Nothing would be the same for any woman in this country again. From this time onward no wife, however obedient, however loving, would be safe. For everyone would know that if a wife such as Queen Katherine of England could be put aside for no reason, then any wife could be put aside.

Philippa Gregory

#14. When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don't be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Richard Preston