#ant

It is the character of lived experience I want to explore, not the nature of man. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#experience #true-nature #experience

Making money is one thing, paying tax is another. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#money #tax #money

By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction. ↗

— Asti Hustvedt

#decadent #deviant #hero #pervert #life

Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice between dignity and unsatisfied curiosity was less clear to me as a cruel decision that had to be made. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#insightful #poignant #life

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school. ↗

— Aaron Tveit

#high #high school #i #school #unsure

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#being #believe #famous #give #illusion

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#anyone #books #ever #heard #i

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#belief #delightful #given #had #him

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#before #camera #each #exactly #fall

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#everything #go #lacking #makes #search