#mina

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18! ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#academy award #age #award #contract #got

It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning. ↗

— Paul Cullen

#anything #away #build #eliminating #guts

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#dominating #follow #human #human mind #mind

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#independence #individuality #leadership #submission #suppression

It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#leadership #lord #megalomania #sci-fi #science-fiction

Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years. ↗

— Pauley Perrette

#college #comfortable #criminal #fanatic #had

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." (Journal entry, 14 October 1922) ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#daring #empowerment #risk #self-confidence #self-determination

From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#beginning #business #conventions #did #had

I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#constitution #criminal #deal #delegates #established

People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#change #determination #empowerment #inspirational #life