#les

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#dressing #energy #like #pent #snappy

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#dancer #dancers #just #lives #mind

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat! ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#bigger #body #burn #calories #exercise

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. ↗

— James Broughton

#begin #end #find #gladness #i

Korea's early repayment of the full amount of loans from the IMF is a major milestone. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#early #full #imf #korea #loans

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#everything #simple #simplest #thing #very

Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice. ↗

— Alton Brown

#dinner #disservice #done #feed #going

I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do. ↗

— Alton Brown

#canned #circles #cook #could #crackers

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#actor #being #fast #lesson #mostly

I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#ambitious #between #competition #competitive #each