Raluca Raducu Quotes & Sayings

I was never less alone than when by myself. — Edward Gibbon

We cut up lemons on a chop board because they are good for our voices. — Niall Horan

A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least. — Dalai Lama

I know very well you can't help me," he said. "But I tell you, because unsuccessful and superfluous people like me find their salvation in talking. I have to generalise about everything I do. I'm bound to look for an explanation and justification of my absurd existence in somebody else's theories, in literary types - in the idea that we, upper-class Russians, are degenerating, for instance, and so on. Last night, for example, I comforted myself by thinking all the time: 'Ah, how true Tolstoy is, how mercilessly true!' And that did me good. Yes, really, brother, he is a great writer, say what you like!" Samoylenko, who had never read Tolstoy and was intending to do so every day of his life, was a little embarrassed, and said: "Yes, all other authors write from imagination, but he writes straight from nature. — Anton Chekhov

Making an independent documentary film is so hard that usually, the usual model is that your film becomes a model for advocacy, so you can enlist that support group and get as much juice out of your film as possible. That's just practically, financially, what you need to do. — Tim Hetherington

There are those who will hate you for the wrong reasons; you must be shrewd but innocent around them. There are those who will hate you for the right reasons, you must listen to them.
Then there are those who will love you for the wrong reasons, you need them but never listen to them, and those who love you for the right reasons you must always keep near. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold. — Mary Karr

Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you're maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there's that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it's like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it's rather tedious to fill in the branches ... — Alan Rickman

And now, I'm thinking again, isn't there something we can do about something we can't do anything about? — Hiromu Arakawa

A photo is a creation. — Eva Herzigova

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music. — Daniel Ek

Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can. — Matt Dillon

It still amazes me how complicit the media are in propagandizing for war. This is true whether it's a Republican or Democratic-leaning entity. Both sides spout the lies delivered by government officials to encourage public support for wars. Whether the president is a Republican or a Democrat, the media will be supportive. It just may be that the owners of the large media entities are closely connected to the military-industrial complex. — Ron Paul