#elf

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. ↗

— Andre Gide

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Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself. ↗

— John Gielgud

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While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself. ↗

— Roland Gift

#big #birmingham #early #growing #growing up

I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?' ↗

— Ryan Giggs

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I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe. ↗

— Shannen Doherty

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For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#beauty #both #chess #closely #expression

And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

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The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up. ↗

— Leo Kottke

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My image lends itself a little bit more to the modern fan, sometimes more toward the kids, and I guess more toward the wine drinkers... I mean, I have my own wine, and fans love to pull for people they relate to. ↗

— Jeff Gordon

#drinkers #fan #fans #guess #i

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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