I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.Quote by Floyd Abrams about contentment
I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.Quote by Floyd Abrams about contentment
If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't...Quote by Floyd Abrams about contentment
The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?Quote by Floyd Abrams about contentment
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.Quote by M. H. Abrams about contentment
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.Quote by M. H. Abrams about contentment
The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing-by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.Quote by M. H. Abrams about contentment
When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.Quote by M. H. Abrams about contentment
Acting is the work of two people. It's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.Quote by Victoria Abril about contentment
In the '70s, you were legally underage until you turned 21. And when you're 16, 21 seems so far away!Quote by Victoria Abril about contentment
Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!Quote by Victoria Abril about contentment
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.Quote by Francis Bacon about contentment
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.Quote by Victoria Abril about contentment
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.Quote by Victoria Abril about contentment
An audience would come having been fed something about how to react, and where you'd be getting tons of laughs at the preview, the next night there'd be dead silence because they'd been told that the piece isn't funny.Quote by Kevin Bacon about contentment
Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.Quote by Kevin Bacon about contentment
As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.Quote by Kevin Bacon about contentment
Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.Quote by Kevin Bacon about contentment
I always watch rushes. They give me a sense of whether I'm going in the right direction. You work hard and hopefully get encouragement from what you see.Quote by Kevin Bacon about contentment