#casualty

I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#agent #around #as far as #because #being

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.' ↗

— Kevin Costner

#big #big fan #casualty #dreams #fan

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age. ↗

— James Ellroy

#alone #casualty #early #focus #hurt

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#casualty #me #only #shot #sin

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#casualty #correctly #first #i #i remember

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

#casualty #first #graveyard #implies #keep

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me. ↗

— Rick Allen

#back #casualty #drive #drum #forgot

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion. ↗

— James Reston

#casualty #common #common sense #discussion #first