#ten

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense. ↗

— Charles Churchill

#copy #fame #faults #forfeits #pretense

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#desire #desperate #hostility #i #i can

I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice. ↗

— Russell Banks

#could #grows #having #hear #her

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#before #confidence #differences #extension #fervently

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#diner #first #good #good work #i

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#currents #highs #i #like #lows

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#character #guy #hear #i #intense

He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#attached #being #berlin #children #concerned

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane. ↗

— Charles F. Bass

#arcane #due #failures #four #i

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#absolute truth #eternal #makes #pretension #science