It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that. – Gertrude Stein
The problems that the world faces – from nuclear proliferation to climate change – cant be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim. – David Miliband
I dont think I ever got the hang of the writers room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to – if I did something again, I think Id want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does. – Diablo Cody
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. – David Hume
He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. – W.J. Cameron
Whenever Im in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, You know what: my dads a really, really famous theatre director, because nobody has any idea. – Rebecca Hall
