#ace

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor. ↗

— David Duchovny

#acting #certain #certain things #character #emotionally

The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

#aspects #boasting #complacency #confidence #expression

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#actually #call #create #experiences #i

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#bear #birth #borne #ceases #celebrating

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way. ↗

— Anthony Eden

#concession #gain #lasting #lasting peace #may

She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect. ↗

— Anne Edwards

#body #camera #claimed #could #every

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#almost #become #come #exactly #exciting

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#arts #cause #disgrace #educated #every

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#drinking #felt #holy #i #miss

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway. ↗

— Jack Vance

#beginning #could #ending #good #graceful