Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it is a way of showing your appreciation and love to the loved body through her senses.
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
The key to finding happiness in this life is realizing that the only way to overcome is to transcend; to find happiness in the simple pleasures, to master the art of just being.
Don't listen to anyone. Trust what gives you pleasure. Trust the emotions. If you love something but can't explain why, that's enough
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.
The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is in, complex it out - forever.
I like to stay hydrated with water throughout the day and snack on apples, but my guilty pleasure would definitely be a caramel macchiato from Starbucks!
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.
We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last.
