#improv

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#always #certain #conversations #each #happens

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#been #commitment #community #family #family life

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#criticize #improving #keep #life #little

We first make our habits, then our habits make us. ↗

— John Dryden

#change #habit #self-improvement #change

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#self-improvement #change

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#change #improvement #misattributed-to-leonard-cohen #motivational #success

You can’t change the road you traveled from a child, but you can certainly take a different road for the journey into your future. ↗

— Shamarion Whitaker

#self-improvement-book #change

My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#actor #always #beautiful #because #cafe

Be better than yesterday. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#improve #quotes-to-live-by #yesterday #death

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement." [Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech] ↗

— John Steinbeck

#exposure #failures #faults #improvement #writers