"I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world."

-- Stuart Pearson Wright

#Interesting Quotes #World Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.”
“Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 20, 2012
“Good evening and welcome to Have I Got News for You, the show that's done for Friday and Saturday nights what ten pints of lager does for Sunday mornings, although I wouldn't know, being more partial to cocaine personally. Allegedly.”
“For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.”
“A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.”
“I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that the Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered, many in cold blood.”

Source : "Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing". Book by Robert Sabella, p. 56, 2002.
“When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.”
“I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain.”

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