"Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life."

-- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

#Life Quotes #Private Life Quotes

“One, I never get sick of talking about myself.”
“I have never described this to you before, not so much, I don't think, from lack of truthfulness as that, just naturally, one is not going to explain to people at large that from time to time one vomits up a small rabbit.”
“When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.”
“A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.”
“State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.”
“Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.”
“If you sit in on a film class with students, their big complaint is "That's not like real life." They don't realize that they don't really want to watch real life. They don't want to sit and watch a security camera. There's a strong gravity in all of us as viewers - even in myself now and then - to want to see real life depicted. But you're looking for it in the wrong places. It's in little allegories, in something removed.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.”

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