"For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again. But that doesn't seem to help me. In my opinion, I, personally, have gotten steadily sillier and sillier - and that's a fact."

-- Christopher Isherwood

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“I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.”
“A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.”
“Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its essence into visible form. ... It must be the reflection of the artist who creates it and of the era in which he lives, not an echo or a memory of other days and other ways.”

Source : Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”
“The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.”

Source : "Acting, Gaming, and Math Science With 'Searching For Sonny' Star Masi Oka". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. August 29, 2012.
“It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.”
“I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper”
“It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child's interest in the game itself. The essential thing to do is practise often and, in case of a doubt, to consult a trainer.”
“Anybody that believes in separation of church and state needs to leave right now.”

Source : "Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservative and American Culture". Book by Barry Hankins, 2002.

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