#thing

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same. ↗

— Chuck Close

#art history #description #great #history #know

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor. ↗

— Glenn Close

#celebrity #death #happen #thing #worst

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#large #marry #nose #nothing

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box. ↗

— David Fincher

#camera #everything #out #paper #really

When you're doing that TV thing, you're doing the same thing for years and years. You can fall into bad habits as an actor and I think it can take a toll on your ability to act, which I think is scary. ↗

— Rory Cochrane

#act #actor #bad #bad habits #doing

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#decide #fairly #generally #guess #i

And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#bit #came #different #everything #fool

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#anything #being #born #care #charlotte

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#been #brings #collaboration #dennis #me

In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#almost #anticipated #century #different #different schools