"Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences."

-- Dennis Lehane

#Luxury Quotes #Essentials Quotes #Purity Quotes

“All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.”

Source : 1979 In the NewYork Times,13 May.
“Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being.”
“A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."”
“One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children-unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.”
“You beat 50 percent of the people in America by working hard. You beat 40 percent by being a person of honesty and integrity and standing for something. The last 10 percent is a dogfight in the free enterprise system.”
“I think ever since I was a kid I knew subconsciously that I wanted to be an actor. I would walk around the house pretending I was somewhere else.”

Source : "Crush of the Week: Kelly Blatz". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 9, 2010.
“Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.”
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

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