"It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing."

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Source : Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

Gelett Burgess

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“I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.”
“I’m so thrilled to manufacture in LA and to support the finely skilled craftsmen and women. Making it in America ensures that the fashion industry will continue to thrive in this country for years to come.”
“I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.”
“Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.”
“I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be weak, their powers of expression will be likewise.”
“We all love to win, but how many people love to train?”
“It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the â€œkingdomâ€, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.”
“We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.”

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