#elf

Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62. ↗

— Marc Davis

#direction #done #early #early sixties #find

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#class #culture #how #matter #mature

I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on. ↗

— Patti Davis

#could #every #every step #experience #family

The ultimate mystery is one's own self. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#own #self #ultimate

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. ↗

— Margaret Deland

#common sense #denies #dissipation #self-sacrifice #sense

Everything is self-evident. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#self-evident

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress. ↗

— Helene Deutsch

#equal rights #freedom #gates #i #indeed

And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done. ↗

— William Devane

#child #children #doing #done #good

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. ↗

— John Dewey

#choice #continuous #formation #ready-made #self

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#acting #actually #am #another #best