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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! ↗

— Winston Churchill

#away #back #danger #double #flinching

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet. ↗

— Sally Field

#first #first thing #i #i think #juliet

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools. ↗

— Sally Field

#departments #drama #enough #grow #grow up

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ↗

— Sally Field

#eyes #i #i was raised #judge #kind

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did. ↗

— Sally Field

#cut #dialogue #did #felt #i

Sometimes, as Eve was born from one of Adam’s ribs, a woman was born during my sleep from a cramped position of my thigh. Formed from the pleasure I was on the point of enjoying, she, I imagined, was the one offering it to me. My body, which felt in hers my own warmth, would try to find itself inside her, I would wake up. The rest of humanity seemed very remote compared to this woman I had left scarcely a few moments before; my cheek was still warm from her kiss, my body aching from the weight of hers. If, as sometimes happens, she had the features of a woman I had known in life, I would devote myself entirely to this end: to finding her again, like those who go off on a journey to see a longed-for city with their own eyes and imagine that one can enjoy in reality the charm of a dream. Little by little, the memory of her would fade, I had forgotten the girl of my dream. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#sleep #dreams

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. ↗

— John Keats

#becomes #ever #experienced #nothing #real

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#anything #being #does #else #i

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#another #great #i #i am #maker

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#business #earnest #game