Skip to main content

Never forget what you are, fo...

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

George Martin 788 quotes

Every man should lose a battl...

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

George Martin 788 quotes

A mind needs books as a sword...

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

George Martin 788 quotes

When the writing is going rea...

When the writing is going really well, whole days and weeks go by, and I suddenly realise I have all these unpaid bills and, my God, I haven't unpacked, and the suitcase has been sitting there for three weeks.

George Martin 788 quotes

And the young people in the 1...

And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe.

George Martin 788 quotes

What I was trying to convey t...

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.

George Martin 788 quotes

Well, again working strictly ...

Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.

George Martin 788 quotes

Because when the film was fir...

Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think.

George Martin 788 quotes

We're lucky, real lucky. Our ...

We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens.

George Martin 788 quotes

Well, I think, I certainly us...

Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.

George Martin 788 quotes

I think that one of the nice ...

I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along.

George Martin 788 quotes

He was definitely a father fi...

He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant.

George Martin 788 quotes

When your enemies defy you, yo...

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

George Martin 788 quotes

There is an empty place within...

There is an empty place within me where my heart once was.

George Martin 788 quotes

I've been very lucky. There we...

I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd write another book.

George Martin 788 quotes

I rose too high, loved too har...

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.

George Martin 788 quotes

Tarly, when I was a lad half y...

Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.

George Martin 788 quotes

I beg you both, take heart.'(V...

I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys) 'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices.

George Martin 788 quotes

If there are gods, why is the ...

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.

George Martin 788 quotes

Drowning was bad enough. But d...

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

George Martin 788 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

23

Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

83

Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

115

Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

219

Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

541

Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

165

Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....