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I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in. ↗

— Elizabeth Debicki

#age #ballet #children #dancer #dancers

When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes. ↗

— Jill Hennessy

#alter #anything #ask #changes #dialogue

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#great #i #i do #less #masters

Afternoon experience: autographing exposed legs, outstretched in lines like matchsticks. Afternoon epiphany: Those with smooth, hairless legs would soon lose all evidence of my contact when the sweat causes the ink from the marker to run. I am ephemeral. Skepticism would be the reaction to those with thick leg hair, as their curls frazzle the lines of my name outward illegibly. Among the scaly-legged, I flaked off immediately, like I never was at all. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#epiphany #existentialism #funny-and-random #legs #experience

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#cost #internet #more #purchases #sales

I'm single. I had to make a few changes in my life. ↗

— Kim Delaney

#few #had #i #life #make

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior. ↗

— Julie Delpy

#comedy #drama #easier #expected #film

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#been #change #destroying #emotions #give

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money! ↗

— Jonathan Demme

#commercially #did #ed #finally #had

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia. ↗

— Democritus

#discover #gain #i #kingdom #persia