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"Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don`t get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don`t have to do as much, like you don`t go on as many outings."

- Hugh Jackman

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.

- Joseph Conrad

Sometimes I have a desire to control what I do a little bit, especially when I do a smaller movie. But basically, my impulses are the impulses of a child. I like being the thing itself. I don`t like thinking about it. And that doesn`t mean I`m not analytical or that I`m anti-intellectual. I`m not trying to say I`m a totally intuitive kind of guy. It`s just that my real pleasure, where I feel vital and everything drops away, is when I`m in the middle of doing it, and I look for that opportunity untainted by other responsibilities. But I`m getting too serious. When I try to explain what I do, I get a little bit disgusted with myself because I come off too earnest. In the simplest terms, it`s a pleasure to borrow someone else`s body and someone else`s life. That`s the craft, and it`s a bit like voodoo, because you don`t know exactly how you do it. - On his acting style.

- Willem Dafoe

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

- Patty Duke

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

- Chuck Jones

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

- Mark Millar

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

- Albert Sterner

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

- Albissaty Saleh Allazam

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

- Alejandro Canizares

Of all these examples, the simplest but the most profound is the fact that it takes at least two somethings to create a difference.

- Alex Ward

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

- Alexander Barclay

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

- Alexander Barclay

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.

- Alfred DeMaria

In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

- Alfred DeMaria

The simplest science book is over my head.

- Alfred Steiglitz

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

- Ali Safavi

Here`s the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.

- Allan Zaremberg

Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult. These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen war.

- Allen Jackson

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

- Allen Jackson

When we don`t have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you`re painting it and white is never as white.

- Amrit Bohara

We have everything from the simplest to complicated. We have nothing a good high school or college lab wouldn`t have.

- April McClendon

With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp.

- Aron Buchman

Very often, it`s the case that the heirs of significant collectors are not particularly interested in art, and sometimes the simplest thing to do is to have a collection sold off,

- Ayman Atieh

Among the really difficult problems of the world, (the Arab-Israeli conflict is) one of the simplest and most manageable.

- Barron Boyd

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

- Oscar Wilde

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

- Sam Levenson

The simplest things are often the truest.

- Richard Bach

In fact it is the simplest things that are the most tricky to do well. To read, for example. To be able to read exactly what is written without omitting anything that is written and at the same time without adding anything of one`s own. To be able to capture the exact context of the words one is reading. To be able to read!

- Jean-Louis Barrault