#point

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#choosing #disappointing #does #half #happiness

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#everyone #film #fixed #lighting #much

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#connecting #enough #hit #just #no point

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#career #got #i #loved #most

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. ↗

— George Berkeley

#bring #certain #certain point #common #common sense

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#because #been #being #change #democracy

Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone? ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#because #best #certainly #decide #decision

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them. ↗

— Nuno Bettencourt

#guarantee #half #i #open #point

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#any #each #every #fact #giving

That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters. ↗

— George Saunders

#artistic #big #daughters #every #got