"To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation."

-- Alexander Smith

#Portraits Quotes #Creation Quotes

“It is said in sporting circles that great players leave the game a year too early rather than a year too late.”
“I have always tried to move on from disappointments as fast as I can.”
“I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.”
“I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in cushioning your insecurities with a system of belief that tells you 'Don't worry. This may be your life but you're not in control. There is something or someone looking out for you -- it's already organised.' It's all chance and choice, which is far more frightening.”
“Fear... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction”
“Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.”
“First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends”
“When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's good, but you don't really know, and you don't see it until about six or nine months afterward, and I saw it and was pretty pleased.”

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