#elf

I tell you how I feel and how we're going to solve it. That's my unique personality and that's how I carry myself. It is different from most people, but when something comes out of your mouth, people tend to listen more. ↗

— Jon Runyan

#comes #different #feel #going #how

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#around #become #carry #corner #creature

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#ball game #free #free speech #game #itself

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#best #drops #else #everything #out

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. ↗

— John Ruskin

#control #devoted #education #impudence #itself

I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#basically #because #been #camera #comfortable

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#any #big #big star #bigger #could

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

#being yourself #duty #easy #know #our

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. ↗

— Saadi

#another #argue #discover #ignorance #may

I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court. ↗

— Gabriela Sabatini

#any #be happy #centre #court #happy