Will Durant Quotes
If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
Will Durant
Quotes to Explore
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I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.
Samantha Morton
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I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.
Gary Shteyngart
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I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.
Faith Hill
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Beauty is very much broader than just to the eye. It is our whole, positive response to life. An artist is fortunate in that his work is the inner contemplation of beauty, of perfection in life. We cannot make anything perfectly, but with inner contemplation of perfection, we can suggest it.
Agnes Martin
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I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.
Charlie Parker
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To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.
Tom Stoppard
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Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes
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I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.
Albert Einstein
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They're so boring. They're so pathetic, all those journalists. Most of them are. Most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and most of it's gossip. Things are just invented about your personal life and you just have to take that. It's bullshit. People believe it, though. They just believe everything they read.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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But his life consisted, for the most part, of writing and reading. He wrote during the day, read at night, went to bed early, and did the same thing the next day.
Brian Morton
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To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.
William Arthur Ward
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They're the perfect loving family, so adoring...
And I love them every day of every week.
So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring,
And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak.
Brian Yorkey
