#ect

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. ↗

— Beverley Nichols

#delectable #flowers #form #fragrance #overcome

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#escape #everything #hors #into #led

Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#bring #certain #certain things #directors #feel

I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#audition #ball #because #behind #eight

I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#comfortable #common #director #do your best #ethic

My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#acting #classes #connected #did #dramatic

Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#always #anymore #anything #balance #certain

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad. ↗

— Larry Niven

#i #i do #passing #privacy #suspect

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. ↗

— George Orwell

#being human #does #essence #human #perfection

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off. ↗

— Larry Niven

#because #cut #direction #embedded #field