"The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it."

-- Max Beerbohm

#Pride Quotes #Instinct Quotes #Egoism Quotes

“There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Too many proofs spoil the truth.”
“I'm not particularly fond of the Hamptons.”

Source : Interview with Rebecca Sinn, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.
“Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.”
“Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.”
“There are still hungry people in Ethiopia, but they are hungry because they have no money, no longer because there is no food to buy... we strongly resent the abuse of our poverty to sway the interests of the European public.”
“You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!”
“Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that”

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