#event

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#becomes #beginning #certain #certain way #eventually

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#great #great man #great men #greatness #his

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. ↗

— Mike Ferguson

#death #event #only #taxable #washington

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#best #deeply #event #himself #his

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#am #die #i #i am #may

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#anything #ask #become #better #better person

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#almost #another #around #back #crashing

I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there. ↗

— Luke Perry

#eventually #feel #felt #get #i

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#event #may #occur #ready #unforeseen

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#administration #because #charity #come #events