#act

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#afraid #always #fail #fighting #guess

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#black #character #goth #ipod #just

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#college #first #go #i #professionally

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#allergic #car #context #disney #falls

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#american #american politics #between #characterized #competition

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#adverse #adverse conditions #against #aggression #conditions

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#anything #care #earth #face #hardest

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#like #lives #many #people #satisfaction

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#any #destructive #find #i #kind

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#aspect #being #beings #bound #chain