"One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions."

-- Otis Skinner

#Confusion Quotes #Silence Quotes #Silent Quotes

“I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff.”
“Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.”
“I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An eloquent mathematician must, from the nature of things, ever remain as rare a phenomenon as a talking fish, and it is certain that the more anyone gives himself up to the study of oratorical effect the less will he find himself in a fit state to mathematicize.”

Source : James Joseph Sylvester (2008). “The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester”, p.72, American Mathematical Soc.
“Bad things happen, it's your job to overcome them.”
“When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.”

Source : Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.
“I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh.”
“I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.”
“When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.”

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