"In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past."

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Source : Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”

Alexander Smith

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“I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work rather than adding to the indignity of relief.”
“You don't want to bring an actor in and force them into a performance. You want their input. You want their creative thoughts.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.”
“In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.”

Source : Giorgio Vasari (1963). “The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects”, London : Dent ; New York : Dutton
“One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.”
“Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The problem with representation in the media has very much to do with the conflicts between groups in the world. If you talk about Iraq, al Qaeda, Darfur, even Taiwan, representation is a part of that problem.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Some people have more guts than brains.”

Source : John Grisham (1996). “The Rainmaker”, Dell

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