"All good work requires self-revelation."

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Source : Sidney Lumet (2010). “Making Movies”, p.59, Vintage

Sidney Lumet

#Hard Work Quotes #Self Quotes #Good Work Quotes

“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”

Source : Romain Rolland (1914). “John Christopher: Storm and Stress”
“The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.”

Source : "What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.
“Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.”

Source : "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 53 (1751)
“At the heart of my life is the idea that I don't ever want anything to ever change. That's the basic tenet.”
“Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”
“I think four Olympics is probably enough. Five Olympics is a long time, but there's nothing wrong with that if I'm into it and I'm healthy and my priorities can fit around that.”
“You can get tested now for early onset Alzheimer's. Hold on a second, could someone hire a marching band, cause I'm so happy I feel like having a parade. You mean I can find out early if I'm going to die of a super horrible disease that there's no cure for? Well, whoopee!”
“I'm on Grace And Frankie, which is also about that time in life, I'm realizing. But I would - so I guess I am sort of in that show. But there's something about The Golden Girls and the sort of multicam set and Bea Arthur that I just want to be around those ladies all day long, and I want to be on those comfy couches and want to sit in that kitchen in those chairs in those pastels, and I want to wear Blanche's outfits and it's just really... and I want to sit outside in that weird little courtyard.”

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