#ear

Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#dresden-files #fear #fight-or-flight-response #anger

I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#being #career #cent #early #earn

Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends. ↗

— Holly Hunter

#become #connected #daughters #deeply #during

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ↗

— Michelle Hunziker

#educated #father #german #had #host

I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman. ↗

— Michelle Hunziker

#another woman #appears #every #four #had

It was far more fun than work doing those shows for all those years, we all loved each other and loved going to work, we all understood how fortunate we were to be in that place, to have achieved that success worldwide. ↗

— Steve Kanaly

#doing #each #far #fortunate #fun

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick. ↗

— John Hurt

#am #be-all #being #believer #clinic

And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

#heart #old #pain #stir #through

Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds. ↗

— Elspeth Huxley

#country #cruel #grinds #heart #into

I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with. ↗

— Anjelica Huston

#i can #kids #nephews #new #niece