I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. - Dorothy L. Sayers

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I've had the chance to work with some really good filmmakers. It's put me in a situation where I've been surrounded by great actors, and for me it's been a lot about standing in the background and watching people work.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

Atheist, Everything, Quotation, Thinking, Work

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I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.

Character, Characters, Details, Facts, Historian, Unless

The only Christian work is good work, well done

Christian, Done, Good Work, Work, Work Well Done

Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).

Blessing, Blessings, God, Personality, Reality

Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.

Boxes, Branches, Classic, Gothic, Nature, Wall

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Know, Law, Lawyers, Littles, Mystery, Workhouse

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Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under! - C. JoyBell C.

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Alicia Vikander

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Michael Snow

I do consider the individual things individual, in a way because that is what I do I guess, try to find out what is special about each medium.

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Donald A. Norman

In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion in the marketing of home and office appliances. We are surrounded with objects of desire, not objects of use.

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Pat Steir

I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted. It relates to something. Non-objective relates to nothing. It has no object.

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