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Walter Pater

"To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and ignoble gait, becoming, unconsciously, something like thorns, in their anxiety to bear grapes; it being possible for people, in the pursuit of even great ends, to become themselves thin and impoverished in spirit and temper, thus diminishing the sum of perfection in the world, at its very sources."

Source : Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

Walter Pater

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“You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.”
“The truth is, you win the Lotto. That's really how you have to approach it. You're a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes.”
“The word â€˜studioâ€™ is derives from â€˜studyâ€™. Our object is not to know the answers before we do the work. Itâ€™s to know them after we do it.”
“I want to play Nightwing real bad. I worked with [Arrow creator] Greg Berlanti a while ago on a show called Everwood and jokingly I tweeted him saying, 'Hey, let me come play Nightwing for a couple episodes.' And somebody wrote an article about it, so I was like, let's make it happen, but I haven't heard anything about it yet.”

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“If you want nothing, do what you want. If you want everything, develop discipline”
“The day must come when the nation's whole scale of living must be reduced. If that day comes,Parliament must lay the burden equally on all classes.”
“I took little interest in fleshly infants; it being my private opinion that their attractions did not justify the fuss that was made about them. I had, for instance, early discovered that, if you gave a baby a finger to hold, it held it. This was perhaps interesting, but it wanted greatly in the dear element of surprise.”

Source : Dorothy Cottrell (1929). “The Singing Gold”
“You must welcome tests because it gives you confidence and it ensures promotion.”

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