#kin

I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends. ↗

— Wanda Jackson

#friends #i #jerry #lee #lewis

He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#always #been #checking #city #contemplative

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#am #capacity #i #i am #imagination

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#body #call #fat #goat #i

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#am #any #conscious #fact #i

It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#dangerous #especially #except #fell #horse

One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#cold #damp #episodes #flood #hoses

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#financial #friend #future #healthy #her

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#attachment #control #except #freedom #gains

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#customer #dusty #end #filter #final