#ale

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else. ↗

— Toni Collette

#becoming #being #challenge #else #fantastically

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. ↗

— Robert Collier

#adversity #defeat #equivalent #every #how

If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question. ↗

— James Collins

#help #i #know #large #large scale

To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour. ↗

— Lily Collins

#favourite #honour #i #kid #loved

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#contentment #depends #enough #large #large enough

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#chops #everything #faster #get #going

People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#alice cooper #because #cooper #expect #female

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aimed #another #boldly #effecting #ends

Ready?" Despite the grim mood, I smiled and cracked my knuckles. "Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, I'd say I'm ready for that." Amusement softened his eyes. "I'll try to control where I put my hands, but in the heat of things, who knows what could happen?" I added. Patch grinned. "Sounds promising. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#finale #funny #hush-hush #love #nora-grey

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#build #chaos #intense #invites #large