#eat

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#able #buying #cars #drafts #finding

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#actor #audience #believe #change #characters

A man is great by deeds, not by birth. ↗

— Chanakya

#birth #deeds #man

*For eleven years, I've been worked over and abused in ways you can't imagine by things you don't want to know about. I've killed every kind of vile, black-souled, dead-eyed nightmare that ever made you piss your pjs and cry for mommy in the middle of the night. I kill monsters and, if I wanted, I could say a word and burn you to powder from the inside out. I can tear any human you ever met to rages with my bare hands. Give me one good reason why I could possibly need you? *She looks straight at me, not blinking. No fear in her eyes. *Because you might be the Tasmanian Devil and the Angel of Death all rolled into one, but you don't even know how to get a phone. *I hate to admit it, but she has a point. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#monsters #phones #death

Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can't enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#back #because #creative #creative place #enjoy

I'm in a great position now where I've got recognition. I'm not recognized too much. I think I'm recognized enough by the industry. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#got #great #i #i think #industry

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#always #artist #because #could #creative

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#beneath #born #every #every man #fact

Great loves too must be endured. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#great #loves #must #too

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves. ↗

— Jung Chang

#consequently #did #government #human #human beings