"Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne, because it will never change. I have such a fear of seeing you grow old, Jeanne, I fell in love with an unchanging you that will never be taken away from me. I was wishing you would die, so that no one could take you away from me, and I would love the painting of you as you would look eternally."

-- Anais Nin

#Taken Quotes #Wish Quotes #Portraits Quotes

“You need eyes that tell the dog who watches them what you are feeling toward it, even though the message may be hidden from the outside world. Above all, you nee telepathy so that the dog thinks with you. These things are not always born in people. They can be developed as any sense or gift can be developed. That is, providing the person wishes to develop them is honest in mind, because with animals you cannot cheat...”
“When you sit in America you miss the open plains and you miss the sound of rain and the smell of rain and the smell of the veld. If you're African it's different and I don't think one will ever become an American or British. It doesn't matter where you move, you will always be a South African,”
“Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.”

Source : "Alexander Siddig — Discovering the Uncommon Hero". Interview with E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2011.
“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.”
“I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.”
“Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing”
“The play-maker is the most difficult position because you have to always know where everyone is on the pitch.”
“The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.”

You may also like:

D. H. Lawrence
Novelist
Djuna Barnes
Writer
Erica Jong
Author
Gore Vidal
Writer
Henry Miller
Writer
James Joyce
Novelist
Marcel Proust
Novelist
Otto Rank
Psychoanalyst
Philip Kaufman
Film director