#con

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#am #character #constantly #even #himself

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#activities #bed #canvas #different #eight

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#end #first-rate #gershwin #instead #lose

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal. ↗

— Simon Raven

#circumstances #contrived #gentlemen #manifestly #now

I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked. ↗

— Johnnie Ray

#am #answer #asked #business #constantly

It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#become #circumstances #continuously #ethic #good

Our opponent and many in Congress criticized our decision to end the Iraq war. ↗

— David Plouffe

#criticized #decision #end #iraq #iraq war

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. ↗

— William Plomer

#connect #creativity #seemingly #unconnected

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene. ↗

— Peter Porter

#carefully #clues #completely #considered #england

What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#loneliness #life