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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#extraordinary #managed #produce #situations #terrible

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.' ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#four #glows #hand #i #love

They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.' ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#die #fans #go #going #hat

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#artistic #basically #bent #coast #culture

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. ↗

— John Ruskin

#first #great #great man #hesitation #his

A book worth reading is worth buying. ↗

— John Ruskin

#buying #reading #worth #worth reading

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. ↗

— John Ruskin

#education #human #human souls #leading #making

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. ↗

— John Ruskin

#buildings #doing #duty #first #goodness

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. ↗

— John Ruskin

#fortunes #founded #labor #land #large

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. ↗

— John Ruskin

#books #few #hours #life #none