Top 17 Svengali Quotes
#1. Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.
Jerry Harrison
#2. It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.
Raymond Pettibon
#3. Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who snapped his fingers for his little Trilby to obey; in their eyes, my career was his creation.
Ginger Rogers
#4. I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did
being created by a Svengali
which took me a long time to overcome.
Pia Zadora
#5. He's sort of a Svengali... It means someone who's manipulative. More than that: somebody who makes you think that you need him in order to accomplish anything.
Anne Beattie
#6. You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.
Noel Gallagher
#7. You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place - you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.
Bernard Malamud
#8. I can't think of anything more empowering than the fact that we are destined to be, do and have anything we choose.
Hal Elrod
#9. Things don't just happen, people make them happen
Zig Ziglar
#10. I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.
Kirk Hammett
#11. I think the British industry is set up to support British film, if we make films that enable them to support it. If you don't make a commercial film, distributors can't get behind it. If they don't get behind it, the film doesn't do well.
Noel Clarke
#12. To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.
Willie D
#13. However long we have to live, there are never enough springs.
P.D. James
#14. Simon Peter, who embarrassed the other disciples at the Last Supper by asking for seconds. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#15. It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.
Peter O'Toole
#16. The combination of ammonia and chloride can be lethal but I've discovered it can work miracles as long as you keep telling yourself, I want to love, I want to live ...
David Sedaris
#17. After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.
Charles Baxter
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