#close

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#became #cannot #characters #close #creator

I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks. ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

#chair #cheeks #close-up #commercial #film

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#another #close #dance #end #grown

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #believe #charlie #close #columbia

The door can never be closed for good to any player. ↗

— Zinedine Zidane

#closed #door #good #never #player

It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#being #closer #different #ending #endless

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. ↗

— George Burns

#close #ending #good #having #possible

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#brooklyn #close #i #life #live

I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing. ↗

— David Byrne

#advanced #aiming #closer #concerned #get

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other. ↗

— Lord Byron

#allow #any #before #bit #body