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“To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.”
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“My expectations are incredibly high,”
Source : "Now meet her young rivals ..." by Natalie Gulbis, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.
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“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.”
Source : "Alex Pettyfer Calls Hollywood 'Socially Disgusting'" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 28, 2011.
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“Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.”
Source : Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.48, Macmillan
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“I'm not a big believer in slavishly following research. It's one of the things that's wrong with television is that if you throw the whole - the decision-making process to the research department, you're not making any instinctive, visceral judgments about programs, which are show business.”
Source : Source: www.npr.org
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“I think the atmosphere of a Prom concert can change your life, in the best way. It's so deep, the feeling you have there. The audience is so close, and there are so many of them, that you feel they are almost embracing you.”
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“Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.”
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“a Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it ...”
Source : Susanna Centlivre (1872). “Love's contrivance. Busy body. Marplot. Platonick lady. Perplex'd lovers. Cruel gift”, p.63
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“'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.”