#ck

I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#bad #bad days #cost #count #days

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#casting #get #more #movie #movie actors

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#before #clock #going #scoundrel #thinks

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#bag #choose #exploring #film #first

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#frost #gives #had #locked #locked up

Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless. ↗

— Pras Michel

#being #homeless #out #paycheck #seven

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. ↗

— Michelangelo

#discover #every #inside #over it #sculptor

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. ↗

— Michelangelo

#beauty #day #end #eyes #flame

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#audience #commercial #ideal #needs #opposite

I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#away #back #being #competitive #considered