#co

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#completely #gets #god #i #i think

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#big #canvas #challenge #could #deliberately

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#great #requisite #self-confidence #undertakings

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#distinctly #effect #general #happiest #impression

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#attain #commonly #easier #excellence #gained

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#before #clock #going #scoundrel #thinks

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#better #carries #countries #enjoy #fortune

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#between #desires #enjoyments #every #every man

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#constantly #given #i #might #movies

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#desire #i #man #more #never