Alfre Woodard's Quotes
Born: 1952-11-08
Profession: Actress
Nation: American
Biography of Alfre Woodard
When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.
Tags: Heart, Love, TogetherEven when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
Tags: God, Saying, TryingYou very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.
Tags: Love, Picture, ProcessAnd I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.
Tags: God, Him, SaidAfter 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.
Tags: After, Everyone, FewAs an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.
Tags: Real, Saying, ScienceDoes my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!
Tags: Character, Hate, HomeI can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season.
Tags: Her, Son, UntilI think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run.
Tags: Call, Run, UnderstandTelevision studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.
Tags: Movie, Movies, RealityThe Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke.
Tags: God, Life, MenThe growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.
Tags: Age, Art, PoetryThe language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.
Tags: Men, Minds, OnceThe world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.
Tags: Fighting, Human, LifeTo realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.
Tags: Beautiful, Life, RealizeWe foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.
Tags: Art, Power, TruthWho of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language.
Tags: Him, Language, SelfWords are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.
Tags: Between, Thought, WordsDefeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Tags: Failure, Success, True'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
Tags: Morning, Old, YearA nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.
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A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.
Tags: Age, Country, WithinAesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.
Tags: Free, Freedom, SpeechI seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.
Tags: Deal, Hidden, KnowledgeIs there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
Tags: Art, Life, MusicIt is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.
Tags: Artist, Follow, TruthShakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.
Tags: Fame, Poetry, ThoughtThe poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.
Tags: Fire, Him, PowerLeft to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
Tags: Bad, Morning, WorkYou may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.
Tags: May, Single, WomanA marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.
Tags: Genius, Often, PowerArt does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.
Tags: Art, Nature, PowerArt has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.
Tags: After, Art, MindArt is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.
Tags: Art, Experience, WorkGenius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.
Tags: Art, Great, SoulIf the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.
Tags: History, Mean, WholeMuch of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.
Tags: Experience, Life, PowerMy first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.
Tags: Family, Him, MayOne can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.
Tags: Art, Mind, TruthOur understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.
Tags: Education, Great, SayingSeasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.
Tags: History, Life, TimeShakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.
Tags: Child, Fame, Great