#nth

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months. ↗

— James Purefoy

#actor #being #challenge #completely #different

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#commissioned #else #ends #enthusiast #execution

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots. ↗

— Dennis Quaid

#could #hold #how #i #job

There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful. ↗

— Dennis Quaid

#could #cut #even #fired #got

I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#beginning #being #centuries #century #comes

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#considerably #encouraged #end #had #increased

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#greatest #parenthood #preserve #remains #single

I always learned to be philanthropic... to give back. ↗

— Charlotte Rae

#back #give #i #i always #learned

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously. ↗

— Aishwarya Rai

#another #architect #career #enthusiasm #examinations

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help. ↗

— Aron Ralston

#broke #depression #devastated #done #fallen