#elf

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

#ask #being #celebrity #chasing #comes

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

#because #breathe #dates #dinner #excuse

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

#captured #enamored #find #i #interesting

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

#boy #death #element #feel #interest

I'm more relaxed and just feel like there's kind of a peace with myself. ↗

— Katie Hoff

#i #just #kind #like #more

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#smelled #specific

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#nationalist #other #pride #self-respect #substitute

We’re hungry for acceptance—from ourselves even more than from others—for love, for fulfillment, for peace. We’re hungry for a life we think we don’t deserve or can’t have, for the person we know we can be if only we’d give ourselves the chance. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

#faith #fulfillment #peace #self-love #faith

The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#appealing #architects #chiefs #constructive #envisioned