#ak

Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#choice #choosing #inherent #leaders #making

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#bear #between #clear #connection #establishing

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs. ↗

— Tina Fey

#audience #comedy #down #dress #her

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#allowed #basic #basic human rights #blacks #cruelty

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#awaken #before #bodies #bodily #body

The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#changes #characters #day #deep #depict

I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy. ↗

— Chubby Checker

#guy #happy #i #just #know

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy. ↗

— Chubby Checker

#because #been #before #easy #industry

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

#american #american writer #ball #ceremony #describe

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#failures #god #making #mistake #must