"The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the profit and delight of society? Yet I am sensible that a man may be too invariably wise, learned, or witty to be agreeable; and I take the reason of this to be, that pleasure cannot be bestowed by the simple and unmixed exertion of any one faculty or accomplishment."

-- Richard Cumberland

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“I love disco and we sample it a lot for Duck Sauce. For me, that sound is kind of a new manifestation.”

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“Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.”
“He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.”
“I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.”
“Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.”
“We place the highest value on actual implementation and taking action. There are many things one doesnâ€™t understand and therefore, we ask them why donâ€™t you just go ahead and take action, try to do something? You realize how little you know and you face your own failures and you simply can correct those failures and redo it again and at the second trial you realize another mistake or another thing you didnâ€™t like so you can redo it once again. So by constant improvement, or, should I say, the improvement based upon action, one can rise to the higher level of practice and knowledge.”
“Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.”
“I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really acted. I always loved it. But my interests were more in looking at the whole, rather than getting completely swallowed up in a single part of the whole.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2007.

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