#act

I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of. ↗

— Glenn Ford

#actor #anything #became #beyond #certainly

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#action movie #adventure #book #call #comic

It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#business #conduct #could #felt #figure

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#because #character #eminem #i #i do

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#factors #human #human societies #independent #innovation

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#ancient #back #being #convention #due

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. ↗

— Anne Frank

#character #final #forming #give #good

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. ↗

— Anne Frank

#after #character #children #daddy #final

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically. ↗

— Barney Frank

#been #community #community action #domestically #international

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them. ↗

— Barney Frank

#broadest #broadest sense #efforts #enact #had