#ace

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on. ↗

— Laura Dern

#directors #enough #even #i #just

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. ↗

— Voltaire

#graces #milton #recommended #sacrifice #sacrificed

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

#difficult #human #human beings #intersect #just

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#desire #i #i do #i think #idioms

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not. ↗

— Carl Van Vechten

#author #beauty #cat #cats #grace

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place. ↗

— Luis Figo

#day #every #every day #fight #football

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#always #anger #been #bit #chill

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#economic #globalization #increasing #interdependence #islands

I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet. ↗

— Casper Van Dien

#called #come #dean #destiny #film

The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else. ↗

— Andy Dick

#comedy #else #find #great #internet