"From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were hostile, and the man who pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster -- that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys."

-- Henry Adams

#Summer Quotes #Country Quotes #Lying Quotes

“If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are the desert, I am the sea; If you are the blossom, I am the bee; If you are the fruit, then I am the core; If you are the rock, then I am the ore; If you are the ballad, I am the word; If you are the sheath, then I am the sword.”

Source : Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “The Lady of the Sorrows”, p.285, Pan Macmillan
“It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has.”
“Being in Hawaii, it's almost impossible not to be fit, I think.”
“I'm scared, okay? I'm really scared all the time.”
“I definitely divide my life into decades. Almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. My twenties were my journalistic phase, then there was my screenwriting phase, then I became a director, then I started doing some plays...”
“The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.”
“It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the highest degree. He was both the first and the greatest master of this art. By a few strokes he knew how to mark the general image and character of whatever object he attempted...”
“Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.”

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