#trait

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#bedroom #come #few #honest #honesty

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#grow #his #i #i do #like

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#before #billion #billionaires #brings #dollars

You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#came #drama #drama school #extrovert #how

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem. ↗

— Jane Campion

#different #film-makers #films #freedom #gives

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real! ↗

— Fidel Castro

#revolution #thieves #time #traitors

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#made #often #scoundrels #time #traitor

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus. ↗

— John Clayton

#agnostics #also #atheists #christians #communists

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#having #i #like #look #people

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#monarch #noblest #reveal #trait #true