#iv

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#after #bear #coffee #cream #friends

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#beast #broom #drive #fear #grab

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#funny thing #less #live #losing #nerve

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#between #bottom #carries #drive #either

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#always #like #live #look #people

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her. ↗

— John Hurt

#anyone #drank #drinks #father #fear

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. ↗

— William Hurt

#being famous #famous #feel #make #me

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all. ↗

— William Hurt

#am #amazed #being #ever #going

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go. ↗

— William Hurt

#go #i #i am #know #life

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process. ↗