“When somebody's ego is in service of really brilliant, innovative work, it's hard to, cause I'm such an asshole, it's hard to criticize their failures as a human sometimes.” HumansSometimesHardCausesEgoBrilliantWorking ItCriticizeInnovative Author:Claire Danes
“You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend in junior high-one whose revelations thrilled and terrified you, and whose raw, hard-earned wisdom remade the way you saw the world. It evokes the genius of Angela Pneumans canonical progenitors: Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Walker Percy. Lay It on My Heart is a gorgeous, riveting, and unforgettable book.” WorldWayHeartBookHardMightNightReadingNovelSawsGeniusMy HeartLaysBrilliantRevelationsTerrifiedGorgeousAll NightJuniorsEvokeWalkersUnforgettableJunior HighAngelaUp All Night Author:Julie Orringer
“Like I said about Seinfeld and Chris Rock, they're a great combination of brilliance and hard work. [But] there are people who are brilliant and don't work hard, and there are people who are brilliant and sabotage themselves.” PeopleSaidHardRocksHard WorkBrilliantCombinationBrillianceSabotage Author:Sarah Silverman
“(H)er qualifications for the Supreme Court are non-existent. She is not a brilliant jurist, indeed, has never been a judge. She is not a scholar of the law. Researchers are hard-pressed to dig up an opinion. She has not had a brilliant career in politics, the academy, the corporate world or public forum. Were she not a friend of Bush, and female, she would never have even been considered.” WorldHardLawOpinionCareersJudgingFemaleCourtBrilliantSupremeCorporateScholarSupreme CourtAcademyResearchersQualificationsForumsCorporate WorldJurists Author:Pat Buchanan
“William Shakespeare was a brilliant writer and he only wrote the truth. So, if I dont believe it, I have to work really hard to see what that truth is so that I do; thats the only way I can make it believable for the audience.” IfsWayBelieveI CanHardAudienceTruth IsBrilliantBelievable Author:Condola Rashad
“Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work.” HardBeautifulHonestFiguresDramaBrilliant Author:Jorie Graham
“Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.” HardBodyPurposeCourageFireCuttingChangedCapableBrilliantUselessDiamondPolish Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think