"Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?"

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Source : "Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: ‘Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration’". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2010.

Tony Kushner

#Artist Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes #Ineptitude Quotes

“There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot...I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.”
“When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.”
“I felt before I thought, as all humans do.”
“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”

Source : James Jones (2011). “From Here to Eternity: The Restored Edition”, p.943, Open Road Media
“Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.”
“If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?”
“I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.”

Source : "Coleman's short 'n' sweet speech rings true" by Tim Sullivan, legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com. August 1, 2005.
“Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.”

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