#indulge

I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#be happy #completely #create #good #got

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#bring #dismiss #effective #enabled #faculty

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#clothes #drinking #i #inclination #indulge

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#being #central #characters #find #grey

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws. ↗

— David Brainerd

#articles #authorized #errors #established #extravagant

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#any #case #considerable #endured #ever

In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#competing #cumulative #effect #entirely #every

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. ↗

— M. F. K. Fisher

#act #another #being #human #human being

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. ↗

— George William Curtis

#certain #expensive #income #indulge #luxury

The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#buying #house #indulgence #only #pretty