"I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others."

-- Robert Southey

#Looks Quotes #Care Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.”
“Taking away from someone else will never make you any better.”

Source : "4 Secrets to Making It in Show Business" by Renee Olstead, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.
“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and whose heart is bursting with love, a writer sly enough to give the slip to her secret police, the ones who know her so well, the ones with the power to accuse and condemn in the blink of an eye. It's all right that she doesn't know what she's thinking until she writes it, as if the words already exist somewhere and draw her to them. She may not know how she got there, but she knows when she's arrived.”
“And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered itself to become beautiful.”
“The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy talesâ€™ concern is not useful information about the external world, but the inner process taking place in an individual.”

Source : Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage
“Frightening for many artists is promoting themselves. They feel it is... artificial and not what we want to be known for. Yet if we start thinking about what we do as important and important to offer to people, not to sell... it allows us to shift the way we think about promoting ourselves.”
“I don't have 'gears.' I play one way. That's all I've ever known. I WILL.”
“Let's begin to cover the main street of America... just to see what the heck occurs on it.”

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