"If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance."

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Trevor Nunn

#Creativity Quotes #Self Confidence Quotes #Arrogance Quotes

“A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.”
“It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.”
“It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.”
“If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.”
“There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.”

Source : Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.206
“The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'”
“I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.”
“Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.”

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