"None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy."

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Source : Gaston Leroux (2016). “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera”, p.24, e-artnow

Gaston Leroux

#Sadness Quotes #Boredom Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Dialogue is character and character is plot.”
“Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.”
“I had been thinking independently about our ability to forget things that happened, specifically, events that clearly were wrong, that crossed the line. It seemed to me during the 2000 election recount that the media's narrative was being orchestrated. Shockingly, after the Supreme Court decision, the media simply said, "Time to move on," end of reporting: "Here's the new story." And everyone forgot.”
“Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.”
“I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll be taking photographs and suddenly know that you have resources from having looked at a lot of them before. There is no way you can avoid this. But this kind of subconscious influence is good, and it certainly can work for one. In fact, the more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.”
“In any country, in any city, there will be political influence on what is said, what kind of images are to be projected and, yes, of course artists can be and are influenced by politicians.”

Source : "Cai Guo-Qiang: Exploding expectations" By Dean Irvine, www.cnn.com. July 27, 2008.
“Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong”

Source : Quoted in Henri Temuanka, Facing the Music (1973)

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