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This is the Christian faith, which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved." The harsh and much-disputed statement begins to look like a blunt statement of fact, for how can anyone make anything of life if there is no belief in life? If we truly desire a creative life for ourselves and other people, it is our task to rebuild the world along creative lines, but we must be sure that we desire it enough.
- Dorothy Sayers
Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement? Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and know it's dead right, there's no excitement like it. It's marvelous. It makes you feel like God on the Seventh Day — for a bit, anyhow.
- Dorothy Sayers
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
- Aesop
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.
- Alain de Botton
Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.
- Dita Von Teese
Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.
- Kesha
I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.
- Alain de Botton
When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
- Dita Von Teese
I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.
- Gia Coppola
I love Instagram and photography.
- Emily Atack
Sometimes I'll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I'll just remember it.
- John Kennedy