#interrupted

I remember doing my SATs on a film set; you had to complete the tests in a certain time and, obviously, you couldn't be interrupted. I think I did pretty well; it wasn't too difficult. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#certain time #complete #did #difficult #doing

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

#fragmented #get #gets #gives #hands

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#each #even #infinite #interrupted #night

To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#been #cry #day #every #every day

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#because #changed #consistency #disaster #easy

I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure. ↗

— Allen Tate

#believe #change #denotes #i #i believe

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent. ↗

— Susanna Kaysen

#survival #susanna-kaysen #talent #talent

Viscosity occurs on a cellular level. And so does velocity.In contrast to viscosity's cellular coma, velocity endows every platelet and muscle fiber with a mind of its own, a means of knowing and commenting on its own behavior. There is too much perception, and beyond the plethora of perceptions, a plethora of thoughts about the perceptions and about the fact of having perceptions. Digestion could kill you! What I mean is the unceasing awareness of the processes of digestion could exhaust you to death. And digestion is just an involuntary sideline to thinking, which is where the real trouble begins ↗

— Susanna Kaysen

#mental-health #mental-illness #susanna-kaysen #death

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#done #interrupted #others #say #those

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others. ↗

— Elizabeth Janeway

#beings #demands #efforts #existence #fragmented