#lit

I have an unfortunate personality. ↗

— Orson Welles

#personality #unfortunate

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do. ↗

— Billy West

#falls #going #got #head #into

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. ↗

— Mae West

#audience #big #black #gleam #glitter

Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed. ↗

— Randy West

#again #appear #consistently #demand #needed

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ↗

— Rebecca West

#adventures #desire #fertilize #nobility #ought

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. ↗

— Rebecca West

#believe #each #even #everyone #less

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. ↗

— Rebecca West

#astrology #astronomy #before #like #military

If the existence of Nuclear weapons has taught us anything it would simply be that just because we possess powerful technologies, it does not necessarily mean that we should use them. Unfortunately, we are currently on course to learn similarly grave lessons from other devastating technologies such Genetically Modified Foods, Chemtrails and HAARP. ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#energy-healing #enlightenment #gmo #god #haarp

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#am #back #boss #come #here

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#anything #drain #else #except #god