#meth

Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players. ↗

— John Terry

#being #fines #go #goes #helping

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#i #more #nothing #people #something

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#africa #always #attracted #bottom #grew

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#acceptance #equality #greater #just #marriage

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#back #book #comes #doing #goes

I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#better #domestic #even #feel #happier

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#bed #book #changed #congenial #corporate

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#always #because #excellent #i #i always

Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#coming #eating #get #going #i

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic. ↗

— David Sylvian

#artist #authentic #freeze #moment #often