#friend

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#characters #deals #friends #i #i think

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#comedy #four #friends #fun #get

If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#because #children #could #critical #die

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#aware #being #death #did #die

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#beautiful #most #most beautiful #qualities #true

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#consult #counsel #especially #friend #his

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#ends #everywhere #foreign #friends #having

My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#friends #i #me #mother #mum

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#i #intimacy #know #me #problem

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#deterrence #dictator #enemy #friend #made