#ere

Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#acting #actually #allows #creative #creative outlet

Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#appeal #appealing #banished #before #dark

If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#because #behave #conceive #conversation #hard

I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#change #connected #continually #even #i

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#decades #interest #me #people #roaring

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment. ↗

— Jimmy Smits

#any #boxing #chess #chess game #different

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids. ↗

— Dick Smothers

#college #college kids #folk #folk music #hot

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment. ↗

— Sam Snead

#certain #consistently #course #detachment #distance

Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do. ↗

— Peter Snell

#because #boring #competition #could #got

I don't conduct myself like a rock 'n' roll star in my day-to-day living. Am I a celebrity? Yes. Do people recognize me on the street? Yes, they do. But at the same time, it's not a media center out here. People get used to you. ↗

— Dee Snider

#celebrity #center #conduct #day-to-day #get