#brilliance

While technical knowledge is useful, it is only a small part of a true master's brilliance. ↗

— Bryant McGill

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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ↗

— Jose Marti

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What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! ↗

— Thomas Mann

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The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant. ↗

— James Sinegal

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Art has something to do with beauty. The act of creating beauty pulls the portion of your soul to the surface that is true to the way you were created. ↗

— Timothy Simpson

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Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe. ↗

— Mario Batali

#any #brilliance #catastrophe #club #eighteen

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character. ↗

— Mel Brooks

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The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. ↗

— Robert Bresson

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