#act

You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#hard #hours #lot #need #practicing

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#also #comedy #drama #good #necessarily

I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#believe #i #i do #know #naturally

The problem with quotes on the internet is you never know if they are genuine. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#humor #lies #quotations #reliability #truth

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#complicated #context #fact #issue #opinions

Hope you didn't bring any spiders into the van with you,' Simon put in. 'Hey, I'm thinking we could take you back outside and hose you down, just to make sure. You'd definitely smell better if we did, which, I mean, bonus.' Jeremy scraped both hands through his hair again, then beat them clean against his thighs. 'Believe me, Simon, if we had access to a garden hose, I'd be the first to turn it on myself. I feel foul.' 'Hate to break it to you, Archer, but that feeling is not lying to you,' Simon said with mild relish. ↗

— M. Chandler

#humor #suspense #humor

A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your companions and the whole world creeps up quiet and you slowly realize you're going to stumble upon a secret place where everyone will jump out at you. And then, when you are the very last seeker, you start to wonder if you're the only person in the world. If the hiding place somehow sucked up the players and the last one has to decide to run away or get sucked up, too. ↗

— Suzanne Palmieri-Hayes

#childhood #decisions #fear #games #hiding

Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In such situations it is better to undertake the practice of yoga–whether physical yoga or meditation–with other people with whom one is comfortable and at ease. Gradually, as we see more and more clearly their roots, the fears and the imaginings will diminish. Mental distractions are harder to overcome when practicing alone. (109) ↗

— Ravi Ravindra

#fears #meditation #practice #quiet #sangha

[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about--was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia. ↗

— Adam Gopnik

#fear #hysteria #overreaction #panic #paranoia

Character is just an invention.... It is the self-fulfilling prophecy that guides our lives... and the longer we live with it the more boxed in we are by the rapidly diminishing variedness of our imagined selves. What we can't ever accept is that we might never know who we are. ↗

— Kamila Shamsie from Broken Verses

#knowing-oneself #imagination