"Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience."

-- Benjamin Cardozo

#Honest Quotes #Poor Quotes #Substitutes Quotes

“I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.”
“I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!”
“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins”
“Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”

Source : Chief Seattle, “This we know”
“Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”
“The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.”

Source : "Seeing and Reading" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. July 26, 2004.
“There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.”

Source : "Mike Leigh: 'Creativity is a life-blood for people'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2011.
“Obviously, this isn't my normal life, traveling to cities and talking to journalists. It's fun. It's really fun. I get to stay in a cool hotel and eat good food and meet cool people, but that's not my normal life. It's pretty pedestrian. I have coffee in the morning, I go for a run, and then I write for as long as I possibly can.”

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