"Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out."

-- C. S. Forester

#Hollywood Quotes #England Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.”
“The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.”
“Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The ancients put that thought in the form of a prayer. They said, â€œFrom the cowardice that shrinks from new truth, from the laziness that is content with half truth, from the arrogance that thinks it has all truth â€“ O God of truth, deliver us.”
“I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!”
“Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define it is not really a fair question. My real answer would be, the answer is on the wall.”
“The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.”
“The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.”
“It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.”

Source : "Boulez in his own words" by Claire Kohda Hazelton, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2015.

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