"As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow."

-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#Real Quotes #Artist Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.”
“The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.”
“When spiritual friends share their stories, the others listen without working. They rest. Thereâ€™s nothing to fix, nothing to improve. A spiritual community feels undisturbed quiet as they listen, certainly burdened . . . but still resting in the knowledge that the life within, the passion for holiness, is indestructible. It needs only to be nourished and released.”

Source : Larry Crabb (2007). “Becoming a True Spiritual Community: A Profound Vision of What the Church Can Be”, p.94, Thomas Nelson
“Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED”
“During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?”

Source : Karen DeCrow (1974). “Sexist justice”, Random House (NY)
“Party Down' is the most fun I've ever had working in my life. We shoot 10-episode seasons and we shoot it in 10 weeks, so it's very brief: 4-day episode shoots. You never get sick of anybody, and it never feels like a drag. It's way, way, way too short.”
“If things are going slow, I'm itchy.”
“Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is succumbing to fashion fascism.”

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