"I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue."

-- Cecil Beaton

#Blue Quotes #Circles Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.”
“No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.”
“To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.”

Source : Studies in History and Jurisprudence "Obedience" (1901)
“I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.”
“A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.”
“Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.”
“My country has no history, only a past.”

Source : Alden Nowlan (2004). “Between Tears and Laughter: Selected Poems”, Bloodaxe Books
“We made four feature films with Sherwood Baptist. The wonderful thing was the church (members) volunteered. It was an awesome atmosphere of attitudes. The hard part was (that) all four of the first feature films we made take place in modern-day Albany, Georgia. We know that not all of our films going to be (set in) modern-day Albany, Georgia.”

Source : "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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