#epa

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things. ↗

— Jennifer Capriati

#i #i can #lot #now #separate

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#freedom #liberty #religion #separation-of-church-and-state #skepticism

I was the ref. I was the ref they didn’t know about. Deaf and dumb. Invisible as a wall. I wanted no one to win ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#divorce-separation-children #age

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#fortune #good-fortune #kindness #luck #old-age

It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue. ↗

— Robert Towne

#dialogue #entirely #faces #fact #important

The first years of my life are of no imprtance. At the age of nine, I was packed off to a preparatory school in the South of England, and for the next four years led the usual life of a preparatory-school boy. I indulged in midnight feasts and was periodically beaten. ↗

— Ludovic Kennedy

#age

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#relationships #separation #life

Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on. ↗

— Marc Davis

#career #department #develop #drawing #film

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#art #being #destiny #friend #go

What is certain is this, that I never rested in that way again, my feet obscenely resting on the earth, my arms on the handlebars and on my arms my head, rocking and abandoned. It is indeed a delporable sight, a deplorable example, for the people, who so need to be encouraged, in their bitter toil, and to have before their eyes manifestations of strength only, of courage and joy, without which they might collapse, at the end of the day, and roll on the ground. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#example #identifying-with-others #people #separation #courage