Between Quotes

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between getting out of the military and... going to jail. Anybody could be a cook, just like anybody could mow the lawn.

So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.

Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

Nicol has great potential and there is a huge gap between her and the rest of the juniors. She needs to concentrate full time on the professional circuit from now on and it is the only way for her to realize her potential.

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.