#id

I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it. ↗

— Rosie Perez

#celebrity #conform #did #hits #i

I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row. ↗

— Pauley Perrette

#commercial #commercials #could #director #doing

Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient. ↗

— William Petty

#candid #chance #correction #etc #happening

You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#embrace #go #hang #ideas #let go

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip. ↗

— Liz Phair

#break #cool #did #hip #i

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#anybody #because #business #confidence #dame

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#any #consideration #ever #found #hack

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall. ↗

— River Phoenix

#car #car accident #day #die #glorious

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#airwaves #chance #decent #decent people #good

I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#any #arms #desk #driving #even