"I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need to read for one or two hours in the evening, and the quiet, so I don't hang out a lot."

-- Michal Rovner

#Artist Quotes #Two Quotes #Bed Quotes

“The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.”

Source : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”
“The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.”

Source : 1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.148 (published 1831).
“You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.”

Source : Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.268, Hachette UK
“Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.”
“In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.”
“CONFIDENCE BOOSTER: Take pride in the things that make you stand out. Realize that you're better served by being authentic to yourself than by seeking out short-term praise from someone else.”
“I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one sex or another, and that the infinite subtlety of the shading from one extreme to the other was one of the most beautiful of nature's phenomena.”
“... if you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.”

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