#lent

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#anarchy #any #appear #centuries #compare

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#between #management #relationship #talent #uneasy

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#fur #gangs #harass #leather #more

In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents. ↗

— John Sayles

#come #direct #get #going #logistical

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#genius #hit #hits #see #talent

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#equivalent #head #instead #own #reading

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#great #great talent #honesty #hypocrisy #limited

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#certain time #chance #demanded #every #happiness

After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#classical #fusion #had #hold #jazz

I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#almost #dramatic #fact #find #funny