#art

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#doing #dominating #kicking #now #prisoners

I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder. ↗

— Ernest Dowson

#fonder #grow #i #makes #tart

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#because #been #death #experienced #i

Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#children #incredibly #into #moment #optimistic

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#derived #frequently #important #keenest #least

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#beach #called #checking #cool #cool thing

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#any #endeavour #failure #just #part

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#book #creative #day #during #feel

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#by the time #compose #energies #equaled #genius

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#aware #because #group #like #onstage