#elf

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law. ↗

— John Dryden

#law #nature #self-defence

I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor. ↗

— David Duchovny

#actor #comic #i #i think #know

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century. ↗

— John Thorn

#chain #clear #describes #events #game

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. ↗

— Voltaire

#depicted #love #self-love #should

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #myself #nature #never #sort

I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#been #certain #change #choreography #dance

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#concerned #contemporary #difficulties #far #historical

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#aggression #anecdotal #brave #broad #brutal

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#confounds #divided #every #falls #itself

But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts. ↗

— Kirsten Dunst

#believe in yourself #decisions #real #real secret #secret