#cult

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. ↗

— John Burroughs

#difficult #distant #great #great opportunity #lure

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself. ↗

— Rainer W. Fassbinder

#also #beautiful #deeply #difficult #dig

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#difficult #difficult thing #easiest #easiest thing #most

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#engaged #format #forward #long #matter

You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub. ↗

— Keith Carradine

#come #difficult #either #embracing #hot

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#bit #business #comes #conversations #cultured

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#breath #capture #converge #faculties #fleeting

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain. ↗

— Leon Uris

#obtain #position #retain #very #writing

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.' ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#amount #anything #come #critical #culture

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#age #background #been #chaos #clearly