#not

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#arrive #destination #emerges #goes #going

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#been #cannot #centuries #done #enough

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#i #interested #me #never #not interested

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#drawn #effectively #experiences #hatred #however

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#failures #front #man #nothing #page

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#doing #exactly #improvise #improvising #know

I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#beautiful #film #get #having #i

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. ↗

— Alice Walker

#bent #everything #nature #nothing #perfect

I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#actor #although #always #any #anything

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#his #little #lives #nature #nothing