You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn’t matter where it is in the world. William Eggleston Read Quote
Of course, some people call me one of the most well-networked people in the world, but I am a very unsocial person – I never go to a cocktail party; I am never seen at a charity event. I have one exception: I’m a member of the board for one of the big European music festivals, so I participate, with pleasure, in concerts. Klaus Schwab Read Quote
Les Mis’ was an amazing experience, to be in the original cast of ‘Les Miserables,’ and ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ God bless it that was fantastic, at the London Palladium the biggest theatre in London the most successful show that has ever been at the London Palladium, that was fantastic. Michael Ball Read Quote
The thinning of the ozone layer is blamed on logging of tropical forests. The fact that the burning of fossil fuels and release of CFCs (chloro-fluoro-carbons) into the atmosphere occur largely in the rich countries are significantly ignored. Mahathir Mohamad Read Quote
I think you can’t really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it’s New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can’t escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of. Jack White Read Quote
A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death. Nikos Kazantzakis Read Quote
My parents came from working-class, small-peasant, farm-labourer backgrounds and had made the grade during the fascist years; my father came out of the army as a captain. W. G. Sebald Read Quote
As a director, when you embrace a project, you try to understand as much as you can about its world, and you do that by embracing and engaging with people who are in that world. Then it’s down to your best instincts, which is what most directing is about anyway. David MacKenzie Read Quote
