"A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator."

-- Alain de Botton

#Successful Quotes #Exciting Quotes #Interest Quotes

“If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.”
“I think I fully commit myself to any role to the extent to which I can. In other words there's some roles that maybe it's just not there, in other words on the page. You know, I mean your job is you need to play the governor and that's what you do. I mean I'm not going to stay up all night if I'm playing a functional role. And I've played a couple of functional roles. And so I'm not going to do anything other, look he's a functional guy. He says hey mister, you forgot your hat.”
“Even genius is tied to profit.”
“Peace begins in the heart of all human beings.”
“Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something."”
“It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy.”
“I don't want to control anybody's mind or anybody's heart -- I just want to help free people from the concert of sex as evil instead of a gift from God.”
“If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.”

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