#meth

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#must #out #people #poor #poor people

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better. ↗

— Tony Goldwyn

#always #better #collaborate #collaboration #come

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things. ↗

— Rita Dove

#away #child #childish #did #i

In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#anything #better #crazy #feels #grounded

I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about! ↗

— Rita Dove

#appointed #because #been #begun #blue

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with. ↗

— Rita Dove

#grew #i #joy #me #means

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#before #comes #depend #every #facts

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something. ↗

— Dexter Gordon

#black #black music #call #drums #i

A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked. ↗

— Maggie Grace

#awkwardness #beautiful #before #blow #fake

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. ↗

— Martha Graham

#another #audience #behavior #being #body