#akin

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#everything #false #making #materialism #truth

If I don’t wear anything, I’d probably make the food go off, and the children run away screaming. What with all the scars and all. I’m not what one could call particularly pretty.” Unlike you, Vadim, and your goddamned perfection, except for a word cut in blood and flesh. Vadim shook his head, already retreating towards the open door. “'Pretty' is different,” he murmured. “'Pretty' has no scars. You are... Jaw muscles tensed again. “Like the morning sky in Afghanistan. Not ‘pretty’. Word’s ‘breathtaking’. ↗

— Aleksandr Voinov

#breathtaking #dan #love #pretty #scars

Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#away #because #coffee #dairy #devastated

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#appear #enjoy #every #find #interest

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#films #keep #long #making #small

Folks, if you give people things for free, don't blame them for taking them. ↗

— Rob Woodall

#folks #free #give #people #taking

Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#action #challenge #clothes #could #gigantic

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#bread #breaking #chief #dead #means

I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus. ↗

— David Bailey

#creative #definitive #focus #i #involved

This body, the United States Congress, was united, Republicans and Democrats alike, in taking that action, toppling the Taliban government, and working to try and root out al Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#al #alike #bin #body #congress