#era

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#creating #desperate #desperation #ingredient #interesting

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#beings #desperation #human #human beings #i

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#actually #angry #defend #doing #getting

When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#college #editor #editors #i #i love

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#beautiful #blue #dead #fine #hair

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#dressed #good #i #know #mix

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#different #feel #immensely #just #part

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#come #day #dollar #globalization #illiterate

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#carter #center #disease #earth #elimination

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#act #box #brief #brief moment #camera