"To make pleasures pleasant shorten them."

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Source : Charles Buxton (1883). “Notes of Thought”

Charles Buxton

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“I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there's some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2008.
“Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.”
“With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured vividly -- through the chronicle of a powerful family's fortunes -- one of the great political dramas of our time.”
“I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.”
“It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.”
“Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.”
“To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.”
“French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable.”

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