#ian

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#could #desire #desires #explode #fortress

The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#been #cast #first #first time #history

When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks. ↗

— Jessie Matthews

#began #biggest #camera #complex #feel

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium. ↗

— Robert Trout

#confucianism #like #opium #strongly #use

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it. ↗

— John Leguizamo

#comedian #gotta #way #you

We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it. ↗

— John William McCormack

#brilliant #committee #consideration #different #doing

I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#australian #before #deal #federation #formation

My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano. ↗

— Marian McPartland

#around #down #good #good taste #hands

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did. ↗

— Glenn Miller

#else #had #hell #i #ideas

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#brilliant #characters #including #main #me