#instead

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. ↗

— Rita Dove

#come #curriculum #early #get #instead

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#actor #always #chair #character #craft

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#commitment #equality #instead #males #poor

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#die #fear #instead #make #many

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.' ↗

— Eminem

#fame #go #had #haunted #house

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#audience #being #come #composers #credentials

I've always loved when girls carry their wallets as a clutch instead of a bag. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#bag #carry #clutch #i #instead

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#answer #dwell #energies #finding #focus

Make your having dinner out become The Event of the Night, instead of just the beginning. ↗

— John Walters

#beginning #dinner #event #having #instead

Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day. ↗

— Bubba Watson

#day #every #every day #golf #hours