#cause

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#because #difficult #europeans #guilty #materialistic

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense. ↗

— Joan Didion

#crazy #grief #happens #make #people

The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#because #boundaries #come #compare #else

I don't ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#because #chick #doing #ever #give

You don't have to go out and party every night. You can act because it's your dream. ↗

— Miley Cyrus

#because #dream #every #every night #go

If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#because #cartoon #cartoon character #character #characters

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#better #comedian #comedians #everything #feel

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection. ↗

— Dick Dale

#amputated #because #had #i #infection

America, I like the spirit. Because American people here believe in something. I like that spirit. ↗

— Paz Vega

#american #american people #because #believe #here

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#cause #dreams #dust #eyes #his