#ect

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones. ↗

— Dan Deacon

#energies #honing #i #into #my time

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#intellectual #interpretation #revenge #upon

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#confidence #consolation #doubt #granted #greater

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. ↗

— James Dean

#actor #anyone #director #exactly #following

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it. ↗

— Margaret Deland

#expected #hold #holds #pint #quart

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#best way #big #block #books #familiar

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them. ↗

— Mary Decker

#aware #expectations #got #high #high expectations

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#great #i #i do #less #masters

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#brick #burden #businesses #cannot #communities

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though. ↗

— David Duchovny

#comedy #i #perfect #romantic #romantic comedy