#figure

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it. ↗

— Morton Hunt

#any #break #break up #determination #failure

It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#because #character #figure #fond #for the people

I want to get back and figure out how we're going to make 'The Tonight Show' funny and good. ↗

— Andy Richter

#figure #funny #get #going #good

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#often #only #out #people #person

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#duchamp #familiar #figures #house #household

That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#dissect #else #figured #gender #going

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. ↗

— Martha Beck

#afraid #authority #authority figures #doctors #figures

My characters are often without a significant parental figure. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#figure #often #parental #significant #without

Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#carded #figure #get #happened #i

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating. ↗

— Julie Benz

#figure #figure skating #full #i #i think