"The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness."

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Source : Leigh Hunt (1852). “Leigh Hunt's Works”, p.16

Leigh Hunt

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“English music is white - it evades everything.”

Source : Edward Elgar, Percy Marshall Young (1968). “A future for English music, and other lectures”
“I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.”

Source : "'Montpensier' star Gaspard Ulliel on Scorsese, Stunts and Scars" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. April 13, 2011.
“Every pain has a gain behind it”
“I am quite spiritual. I believed in the fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't believe in God.”
“When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass.”
“It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as the rulers of us all.”
“Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports Â in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.”
“If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.”

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