#eater

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater. ↗

— Mary Manin Morrissey

#big #greater #into #lead #occur

His words were still clear in her mind from that first meeting. "Whoever eats this will love you." She looked into the mirror, at her birthmark, bright as blood, at her kiss-stung lips, at the absurd smile stretching across her face. Carefully separating out the crushed pieces of shell, she pulled the dried pulp free from its cage of veins. Piece by piece, she put the sweet brown fruit in her own mouth and swallowed it down. ↗

— Holly Black

#holly-black #night-market #the-poison-eaters #love

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience. ↗

— Shelley Winters

#age #beauty #nudity #theater #youth

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#businessperson #greater #leverage #small #than

Now c'mon - if we die, we die cool. ↗

— Atsushi Okubo

#death #soul-eater #death

All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves.... ↗

— Susan Cooper

#philosophical #theater #theatre #inspirational

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. ↗

— Martha Washington

#am #cheerful #circumstance #determined #disposition

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence. ↗

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#democracy #essence #fighting #greater #own

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project. ↗

— Tatyana Ali

#doing #first #follows #i #la

I can work every day of the year. TV is easy. My call's at 8:30 a.m. I'd like to break out of the comedy thing and take a shot at something serious like theater. The off-season allows me to do movies, but I'm not tired of TV yet. There's nothing like it. I've got the best of both worlds. ↗

— Scott Baio

#best #both #break #call #comedy