#line

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. ↗

— Cynthia Heimel

#being #between #brilliantly #creative #doubt

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#decline #gives #occasionally #people #steep

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul. ↗

— Richard Helms

#already #book #finished #first #haul

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#against #credit #elected #interests #line

[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjurers, false witnesses, plunderers and fraudsters are detested and hated by people generally, but whoever will sleep with his servant girl in brazen lechery is liked and admired for it, and people make light of the damage to his soul. And if any man has the nerve to say that he is chaste and faithful to his wife and this gets known, he is ashamed to mix with other men, whose behaviour is not like his, for they will mock him and despise him and say he's not a real man; for man's wickedness is now of such proportions that no one is considered a man unless he is overcome by lechery, while one who overcomes lechery and stays chaste is considered unmanly. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#clichés #crimes #double-standards #fidelity #gender

The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#behind #deadline #defeat #distance #every

I would hope that people didn't think I was anything like Joan! It's very hard for me because Joan says such cruel things all the time. It sort of makes me cringe every time I read them because I think, 'Who could be so horrible?' To be able to deliver those lines and do them with a coolness, yet still make her likable, is a bit of a challenge. ↗

— Christina Hendricks

#anything #because #bit #challenge #coolness

We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments. ↗

— Alexis Herman

#areas #decline #department #departments #government

I've shepherded a good many people through their lives, I've baptized babies by the hundred, and all that time I have felt as though a great part of life was closed to me. Your mother says I was like Abraham. But I had no old wife and no promise of a child. I was just getting by on books and baseball and fried-egg sandwiches. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#life

I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated. ↗

— Barbara Hershey

#australian #australian film #between #characters #crew