#early

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#emotionally #everybody #fantasy #humour #i

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do. ↗

— Mother Jones

#career #cross #early #i #labor

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do. ↗

— Norah Jones

#been #best #best friend #close #early

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#arena #bodies #clearly #commit #enough

I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#being #being pretty #i #mean #movies

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#i #kind #mistress #nearly #old

Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future. ↗

— Tim Johnson

#clearly #creating #cutting #families #future

I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now. ↗

— Felicity Kendal

#aged #clearly #deeply #fan #get

As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.' ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#each #early #encouraged #feel #grateful

I want to make him the proudest dad to have me and I want to show everybody and nearly be as good as him because he was the best. ↗

— Bindi Irwin

#best #dad #everybody #good #him