"One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty."

-- Alan Bennett

#Pleasure Quotes #Duty Quotes

“There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.”
“Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.”

Source : "Deipnosophists" by Athenaeus, xiii. 561c.,
“The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.”
“I think some people are under the impression that you can simply just shoot it on blue, and then it's all done in post. But no, you really need to understand the pipeline, from beginning to end.”
“I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.”

Source : Details Interview, www.facebook.com. February 16, 2012.
“Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.”
“A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.”
“I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.”

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