The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
Design is everything.
Life is very short. . . but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.
Diversity. . . is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other habits of mind have as much integrity of being, as much claim on the world as you do. . . And I urge you, amid all the differences present to the eye and mind, to reach out to create the bond that. . . will protect us all. We are all meant to be here together.
Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.
Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.
Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.
Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well
People working on bigger ideas on a more protracted timeline will be more on the stealth side. They aren’t releasing new PR announcements every day. The bigger the secret and the likelier it is that you alone have it, the more time you have to execute. There may be far more people going after hard secrets than we think.
You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in one evening, that's the most satisfying.
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