"To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way."

-- William Boyd

#Hard Work Quotes #Artist Quotes #Way Quotes

“I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.”
“To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.”
“The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.”

Source : Peter F. Hamilton (2012). “Great North Road”, p.785, Pan Macmillan
“I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.”
“When you live around a working-class environment, you see what sports means to people. You see that it's the escape over the weekend. you see how they build their lives around it. People sort of want to get away from their lives.”
“Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.”
“Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen, or were in a glorified state, then the strong torrents of Divine joy would be the normal force to open up all our souls' capacities; but in a fallen world, sorrow, with despair taken out of it, is the chosen power to reveal ourselves to ourselves. Hence it is sorrow that makes us think deeply, long, and soberly.”

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