#not

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients. ↗

— David Leavitt

#cannot #close #combination #distinguish #end

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#cannot #chairs #comfortable #doors #enough

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#another #band #bit #chances #having

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life. ↗

— Brandon Lee

#actually #based #cannot #career #choices

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#before #comes #evil #expecting #foolish

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#aware #even #ever #i #i write

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#all day #alone #already #behind #boring

There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him. ↗

— Ernest Lehman

#irresistible #love #man #more #nothing

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#everybody #getting #glamour #i #i think

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times. ↗

— John Selden

#nothing #people #people say #say #times