"Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?"

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Richard Russo

#Fun Quotes #Looks Quotes #Oscars Quotes

“Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.”
“Stuff your brain with knowledge.”
“Only the small things in life are important”
“I think now happiness is a thing you practice like music until you have skill in striking the right notes on time. We have no vocation for it. And I had no practice, not a day when I was free from care and one great anxiety - and one must be free to be happy. I know that much about it by having missed it.”
“We should put away the militaristic outlook. The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.”
“What I think it's important to recognize in today's world is that all of our societies are multiethnic, multi-religious and multicultural. And that is a positive thing. That's a richness, and also strength. But we also have to recognize that, for those societies to be harmonious, there is a lot of the investment that needs to be made in social cohesion and inclusivity. But the important thing to recognize, and particularly Europe, most of the terrorist attacks are not done by people that came from the outside. They are homegrown.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I am a bit of a workaholic, and I am still not sure what a "weekend" is all about. I love what I do, and I do what I love.”
“Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture â€” the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us â€” has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you.”

Source : Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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