#am

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#came #door #inclination #necessity #vice

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized. ↗

— Dana Delany

#easily #get #good #i #i can

Jonathan's voice was quiet now. "Thank you for sharing this evening with me. In yoga, we say 'Namaste,' which means 'I bow to the divine in you.'" He bowed his dork-knobbed head and said, "Namaste." We bowed back and mumbled, "Namaste." On my tongue, the new word felt as though it contained its own foreign spice. ↗

— Claire Dederer

#yoga #life

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. ↗

— Michael Dell

#dream #even #framework #genius #graduate

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours." ↗

— Vine Deloria, Jr.

#anthropologist #asked #before #called #came

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior. ↗

— Julie Delpy

#comedy #drama #easier #expected #film

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#choice #concept #enable #familiar #hold

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money! ↗

— Jonathan Demme

#commercially #did #ed #finally #had

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince. ↗

— Ted Demme

#been #i #like #miramax #now

I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#did #especially #i #i love #love