#oft

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. ↗

— John le Carre

#away #both #community #his #i

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#consider #divorce #ended #holly #i

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#based #because #circumstance #coming #could

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#bit #business #comes #conversations #cultured

You always have to challenge yourself or else you get soft. Right? ↗

— Diane Kruger

#challenge #else #get #right #soft

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected. ↗

— Julian Casablancas

#often #simple #solutions #unexpected #yet

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#covered #despised #dupe #find #fool

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#cases #courage #cowardice #good #information

In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#articles #assembly #december #discussion #draft

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#come #conscious #decision #difficult #education