Quotes about People, page 9

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

Quote by Kathy Acker about people

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

Quote by Kathy Acker about people

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

Quote by Kathy Acker about people

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

Quote by Kathy Acker about people

It's called the movie business because it's a business, and like any other business, people run to that thing they think they'll make money from.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about people

People asked me after JFK what I believed, and I didn't care. You presume that people are on the side of their films' beliefs, but that's just not always the case.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about people

I've always turned to the media because one thing people like that fear is exposure.

Quote by Kathy Acker about people

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about people

There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about people

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.

Quote by Kathy Acker about people

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

Quote by Kathy Acker about people

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to...

Quote by Erykah Badu about people

As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.

Quote by Erykah Badu about people

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Quote by Lord Acton about people

However, our society thinks that success means having a car and a lot of money and looking as white as you can or as American as you can. Or if you're white, looking as exotic as you can. We don't have any idea that it's about our hearts and our...

Quote by Erykah Badu about people

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest...

Quote by Erykah Badu about people

I mean that's a big part of our existence here on earth, the personal relationship we have with the person that we love, with the person that we make love to, with the person that we share our lives with. We expect a lot of things back from our...

Quote by Erykah Badu about people

I was new again. I never thought I had an opportunity to walk in and not have people expecting things.

Quote by Erykah Badu about people

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Quote by Ansel Adams about people

I'm a critic, man, I'm really hard on people, but when I listen to Omar I just listen. He's like medicine, I feel like I can be healed.

Quote by Erykah Badu about people