"Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice."

-- Alain de Botton

#Practice Quotes #Contentment Quotes #Violin Quotes

“lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.”
“To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.”

Source : Life magazine, December 05, 1960.
“Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay”
“Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what are we going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.”
“You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.”
“I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.”
“I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.”

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