"Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do."

-- Spike Lee

#Greatness Quotes #Matter Quotes #Talent Quotes

“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.”
“I did have a couple of people asking me to illustrate their MC in a hope to widen the exposure, unfortunately the messages weren't a good fit, so I couldn't oblige. And I didn't really want to become a matchmaking service. Someone posted a missed connection "I like your blog" which was directed at me... that was kind of fun to stumble across.”
“My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.”
“Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.”
“It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series.”

Source : "Holliday Grainger Interview THE BORGIAS; Updates on BEL AMI and JANE EYRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 30, 2011.
“Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.”
“Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits.”
“The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced life stories, but reading Stach's magnificent narrative (wonderfully translated by Shelley Frisch) straight through brings death, not life, to the forefront. Stach is a compulsively readable writer. . . . [A]s in the previous volume, the prose in The Years of Insight is supple and very appealingly complex--all of which, once again, is perfectly rendered by Frisch.”

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