Stella Adler quote: "Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you."

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that ...
STELLA ADLER

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
STELLA ADLER

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists....
STELLA ADLER

life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one
STELLA ADLER

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
STELLA ADLER

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to se...
STELLA ADLER

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
STELLA ADLER

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
STELLA ADLER

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best ac...
STELLA ADLER

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing ...
STELLA ADLER

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his...
STELLA ADLER

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We ...
STELLA ADLER

Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.
STELLA ADLER

I love a pocket. I'm about helping women look as good as possible on the least amount of effort....
STELLA MCCARTNEY

Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.
STELLA MCCARTNEY

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to...
FRANK STELLA

Some days, I get overwhelmed and a bit breathless... I've probably cried at work, but I'm li...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
STELLA BENSON

I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of t...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

My fragrance is rose and amber, and I was just very specific. A lot of what I've done, at the st...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

My mother loves to remind me that about the age of four, I made a somewhat formal announcement that ...
STELLA YOUNG

We all learn how to use the bodies we're born with, or learn to use them in an adjusted state, w...
STELLA YOUNG

My job is to make desirable, luxurious, beautiful clothing and accessories women want to buy. My fir...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't a...
STELLA YOUNG

Obviously, we live in a society where ageing is feared. But, to me, the alternative to getting old i...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

When I first started designing sportswear, I felt that women weren't represented in sports perfo...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

I went to school, I got good marks, I had a very low key after-school job, and I spent a lot of time...
STELLA YOUNG

The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation...
STELLA YOUNG

I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's calle...
STELLA YOUNG

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.
STELLA YOUNG

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
STELLA YOUNG

I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I...
STELLA YOUNG

I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 m...
STELLA YOUNG

I think I always dreamt of having a brand that really was represented globally, that had a voice - t...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination thro...
STELLA YOUNG

Apologies are great, but they don't really change anything. You know what does? Action.
STELLA YOUNG

I do not identify as a person with a disability. I'm a disabled person. And I'll be a monkey...
STELLA YOUNG

In days gone by, short-statured people were not only labelled as ugly, stupid and freakish, they wer...
STELLA YOUNG

When I say I don't do fur or leather, in my world it's a massive shock, but when it comes in...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

What I really want, what I always really want, is baked potato and grilled cheese. But then I'd ...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible...
STELLA YOUNG

I quickly learned that asking if an interview space was wheelchair accessible was a bad idea; it gav...
STELLA YOUNG

While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by ha...
STELLA GIBBONS

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.
FRANK STELLA

We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we ...
STELLA YOUNG

I'm not a victim of sexual abuse. I'm not from a broken home. I've never killed anyone before, or wa...
STELLA NOIR

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'c...
STELLA YOUNG

We fill our lives with all sorts of things that make it easier for us to get along in the world: whe...
STELLA YOUNG

I guess my favourite Disney film was 'Snow White,' which has a really dark moment when the e...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.
DIDACUS STELLA

Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And i...
STELLA YOUNG

The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It ...
STELLA YOUNG

Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate abou...
STELLA YOUNG

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and r...
STELLA YOUNG

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or i...
FRANK STELLA

I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

I, like many women, buy into patriarchal standards of beauty every day. I very rarely leave the hous...
STELLA YOUNG

Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sus...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

From pink water bottles for breast cancer to dumping a bucket of ice water on your head for neuromus...
STELLA YOUNG

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
STELLA BENSON

Disability informs almost every part of my life. It's as important, if not more so, than my gend...
STELLA YOUNG

When I was seven and watched an episode of 'Beyond 2000' that featured a floating armchair, ...
STELLA YOUNG

I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, f...
STELLA YOUNG

Something nasty in the woodshed.
STELLA GIBBONS

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the...
FRANK STELLA

Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.
STELLA YOUNG

I'm obsessed with not chucking away food. I'm lucky enough to have a gardener, so we grow sw...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

There's no excuse for fur in this day and age.
STELLA MCCARTNEY

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up t...
FRANK STELLA

The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an em...
STELLA YOUNG

I did always say I wanted to infiltrate from within. That was always my reasoning behind going into ...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay cl...
STELLA BLUM

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality,...
FRANK STELLA

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
FRANK STELLA

I identify very proudly as a disabled woman. I identify with the crip community. I didn't invent...
STELLA YOUNG

The way my parents brought me up to see the world is still absolutely key to what I am about. The be...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we ...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

This year is also shaping up to be a very literate and literary Festival.
STELLA PENCE

Even those among us who are lucky enough to love our jobs would have to admit that at least part of ...
STELLA YOUNG

I don't plan massively in advance.
STELLA MCCARTNEY

The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be un...
STELLA YOUNG

There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attit...
STELLA YOUNG

Nina knows more about Chinese cooking than all of us combined because she's studied it.
STELLA LEE

Death is not treatment, even if it's medically facilitated.
STELLA YOUNG

The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It's always r...
STELLA YOUNG

It became very clear to me that Yooralla was not as interested in media coverage that explored issue...
STELLA YOUNG

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but...
FRANK STELLA

He was telling me I have gotten a free prescription drug card.
STELLA GOHEEN

Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all...
STELLA YOUNG

I've had people say to me, 'You'll never sell handbags. You don't work with leather,...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

You can never please everybody, don't even try.
STELLA OLADIRAN

Attitude determines Altitude.
Winners never quit.
No venture, No gain.
STELLA OLADIRAN

Friendship is not by force but by choice.
You can never please everybody, he who aims to please...
STELLA OLADIRAN

Walnuts are a delicacy in China. They are expensive.
STELLA LEE

Family jokes, through rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive
STELLA BENSON

Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.
STELLA BLUM

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I'v...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

Beautiful is the man who leaves a legacy that of shared love and life. It is he who transfers meanin...
STELLA PAYTON

Bloom where you are planted and sow where you are fed...
STELLA PAYTON

The whole point to New Years is not just to have a new year. But that we should be new, better and d...
STELLA PAYTON

This Spanish masterpiece was released the first year of our Festival, in 1973, but it has not been s...
STELLA PENCE

Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it ...
STELLA PAYTON

. . . What a pleasant life could be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortu...
STELLA GIBBONS

[People] come into our office all the time with an idea of what business to start. But I'll ask them...
STELLA TOKAR

Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim ...
STELLA BLUM

Graceless, Pointless, Feckless and Aimless waited their turn to be milked.
STELLA GIBBONS

Green fingers was the country name for time, patience and love working together.
STELLA GIBBONS

Miller had gone off on some affairs of his own, as he always did when the routine at Bryant’s was ...
STELLA GIBBONS

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
FRANK STELLA

It is a truth universally acknowledged that from puberty onwards, the female body is disgusting and ...
STELLA YOUNG

As a wheelchair user, I am utterly obsessed with toilets, and all my friends know it. A simple invit...
STELLA YOUNG

Bookshelves stood against the four walls. They were shapely and well made, but were all second-hand;...
STELLA GIBBONS

My job at the end of the day is to design timeless, desirable, beautiful products. It's not abou...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then th...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

In my own home, where I've been able to create an environment that works for me, I'm hardly ...
STELLA YOUNG

Yooralla is a people pleaser with a very powerful PR machine.
STELLA YOUNG

Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with m...
STELLA ATRIUM

People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live i...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

His young man's limbs, sleek in their dark male pride, seemed to disdain the covering offered them b...
STELLA GIBBONS

What dreams lie dormant hidden in the womb of your soul, quietly waiting, incubating seeking opportu...
STELLA PAYTON

It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.
STELLA MCCARTNEY

I find so many opportunities to fall, to falter, and fail when I refuse to surrender to change. Chan...
STELLA PAYTON

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.
FRANK STELLA

I can debate for weeks whether a trouser should sit on the waist, or a centimetre below, or on the h...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

What you wear in the evening is important for women because it's so personal, and it's so co...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

... on the whole I thought I liked having everything very tidy and calm all around me, and not being...
STELLA GIBBONS

No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so li...
STELLA ATRIUM

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style
STELLA GIBBONS

The word 'special', as it is applied to disability, too often means 'a bit shit'.
STELLA YOUNG

Things aren't always easy, but you just have to keep going and don't let the small stuff bog...
STELLA MAEVE

Allocate your resources wisely for all men have been endowed with abilities that are more than suffi...
STELLA PAYTON

I wanted the collection for Target to reinterpret all the must-haves of Stella McCartney for winter ...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm star...
STELLA YOUNG

Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we ac...
STELLA YOUNG

Linear’s defeated form
The intangible reality rise.'' ~ Wanderer
STELLA COULSON

Turn a major mistake into a master mentor, learn from it.
STELLA PAYTON

The dichotomy is delicious. Inside the fantasy genre, I try to present women who need to solve real ...
STELLA ATRIUM

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand an...
FRANK STELLA

I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanist...
FRANK STELLA

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or...
FRANK STELLA

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what...
FRANK STELLA

You see what you know!
FRANK STELLA

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
FRANK STELLA

Why is it that when you don't want to think about something, you can't stop thinking about it?
STELLA LENNON

Ye know, doan't ye, what it feels like when ye burn yer hand in takin' a cake out of the oven or wi'...
STELLA GIBBONS

The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love...
MORTIMER ADLER

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, ...
ALFRED ADLER

The tavern owners and, by extension, the beer truck companies (we do sell some trucks to people who ...
ALAN ADLER

The ring flies a long way because it's so thin. It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness world r...
ALAN ADLER

The ring flies a long way because it's so thin, ... It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness wor...
ALAN ADLER

... The most important thing right now is the crew's safety.
ALAN ADLER

It's a long event. This is only the beginning.
ALAN ADLER

GM takes no position on the matter.
ALAN ADLER

There has been a preference in Germany and France for fillers on the right. But research in the Unit...
ALAN ADLER

extremely sensitive to variation and can result in different ratings in the same vehicle, such as wh...
ALAN ADLER

We think they're very good at protecting people in a crash.
ALAN ADLER

Our customers tend to range in age from teenagers to people about 30.
ALAN ADLER

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to exist...
FELIX ADLER

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today...
FELIX ADLER

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of m...
FELIX ADLER

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest goo...
FELIX ADLER

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public ass...
FELIX ADLER

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tome...
FELIX ADLER

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
FELIX ADLER

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns ther...
FELIX ADLER

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal ...
FELIX ADLER

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
FELIX ADLER

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealt...
FELIX ADLER

The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
FELIX ADLER

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
FELIX ADLER

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of ...
FELIX ADLER

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement...
FELIX ADLER

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
FELIX ADLER

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to inc...
FELIX ADLER

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
FELIX ADLER

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, an...
FELIX ADLER

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
FELIX ADLER

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
FELIX ADLER

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, ...
RENATA ADLER

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
FREDA ADLER

The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those t...
FREDA ADLER

Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but ...
FREDA ADLER

That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the h...
FREDA ADLER

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest goo...
FELIX ADLER

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real lif...
FELIX ADLER

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal ...
FELIX ADLER

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest ...
FELIX ADLER

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of th...
FELIX ADLER

Love of country is like love of woman--he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good...
FELIX ADLER

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as...
MORTIMER ADLER

Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about. Copyright doesn't protect ideas,...
ALLAN ADLER

Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about.
ALLAN ADLER

This category is fraught with issues as to whether publishers can even say go ahead and use them bec...
ALLAN ADLER

They think they're being generous, but the burden is on the author and publisher. If it was fair use...
ALLAN ADLER

In all likelihood, the Library of Congress and Dr. Billington will be consulting closely with the U....
ALLAN ADLER

The role that publishers play in terms of helping to put together the product in a way that has mark...
ALLAN ADLER

When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply has ...
ALLAN ADLER

The fact that we filed suit shows how important the issue is to us. It may be unwise to make any sig...
ALLAN ADLER

Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.

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Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.

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