#akin

I don’t know what’s going on with you and Travis, but I know that he’s going to do something stupid to piss you off. It’s a tic he has. He doesn’t get close with anyone very often, and for whatever reason he’s let you in. But you have to overlook his demons. It’s the only way he’ll know.” “Know what?” I asked, raising an eyebrow at his melodramatic speech. “If you’ll climb over the wall,” he answered simply. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#love-story #beauty

At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#because #bureau #came #certain #communicating

You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve. ↗

— King Edward VIII

#did #empire #forget #i #i want you

Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now. ↗

— David Elliott

#collecting #doing #gets #ideas #more

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school. ↗

— David James Elliott

#back to school #band #breaking #breaking up #go

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#i #involved #knew #making #nixon

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it. ↗

— Alicia Vikander

#casting #casting directors #chance #come #decided

Not taking yourself too seriously, that's the important thing. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#important thing #seriously #taking #thing #too

I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#am #american #currently #i #i am

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#events #i #life #life is too short #past