#lit

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#advance #am #artist #believe #big

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#am #artist #choose #envision #free

The crown of literature is poetry. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#literature #poetry

I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special. ↗

— James Galway

#diamonds #difference #flute #i #just

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#character #character actor #course #every #i

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#being #burned #games #i #joan

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#father #i #i am #political #saint

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#better #cloak #cover #hearts #impotence

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#claim #confess #enough #err #errors

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#adjusted #change #democracy #forms #heart