"What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts."

-- Hermione Gingold

#England Quotes #Crosses Quotes #Draught Quotes

“I come out of real life.”
“Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy ...”
“The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.”
“I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award.”
“If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.”
“Geniuses have the shortest biographies.”

Source : Claire Messud (2015). “The Emperor's Children: Picador Classic”, p.288, Pan Macmillan
“I've had pretty much the same crew for all the films that I've made, and I've managed to have really nice, calm, funny people. That is a big part of it, a family feeling of warmth and finding something interesting and making a platform for them to perform. It's a very difficult job, acting, in that it's totally counterintuitive to how we are brought up.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Lack of true progress may not be a result of not doing what one is supposed to, but lack of focused effort trying not to do too much.”

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