"Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible."

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Simple Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Terrible Quotes

“If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Feb 24, 2017
“There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.”
“I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.”
“Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six.”
“I believe that comedians do what they do, and then they get credit or criticism for doing it. There's nothing planned about this.”
“He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.”

Source : John McPhee (2011). “The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed”, p.42, Macmillan
“Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.”

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