"Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them."

-- Joshua Reynolds

#Ambition Quotes #People Quotes #Exhibitions Quotes

“I never have [suffered writerâ€™s block], although Iâ€™ve had books that didnâ€™t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It was depressing, but it wasnâ€™t the end of the world. When it really isnâ€™t working, and youâ€™ve been bashing yourself against the wall, itâ€™s kind of a relief. I mean, sometimes you bash yourself against the wall and you get through it. But sometimes the wall is just a wall. Thereâ€™s nothing to be done but go somewhere else.”
“I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.”

Source : Patrick Marber (1999). “Closer”, p.78, Grove Press
“Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.”
“My daughter, dad where do homeless people come from? My answer, everywhere.”
“I'm not proud of having been married -I've had five affairs, all of them real wingdings. I've enjoyed every ***** minute of them, but sooner or later I've outgrown every one of them, and when I did I got fed up and threw them out. If they can't keep up with me, the hell with them.”
“Don't let your hands dictate what you think you can do. Look at fingerboard charts and imagine your eyes dancing on the notes you want to play, and forget about whether your hands can do it or not. Just try it.”
“Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.”

Source : 1981 Speech while visiting the Federal Republic of Germany, 23 Nov.
“Hey, if you can't remember, don't worry about it. I'm having a few memory problems myself in this place. Little things like how long I've been here, what my purpose in life is, which feet to put my shoes on. Stuff like that.”

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