#par

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#else #exciting #explain #how #i

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing. ↗

— Merce Cunningham

#give #grades #had #i #interested

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#ear #engage #equal #fiction #inner

Power is paradoxical. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#paradoxical

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

#day #had #hands #i #least

Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is ‘open-minded’ and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware. ↗

— Julius Evola

#paradoxical #truth #religion

I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game. ↗

— Paul Daniels

#did #enjoyed #game #i #just

When someone is HIV-positive and his partner says, I want to have sexual relations with you, he doesn't have to do that. But when he does, he has to use a condom. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#does #his #i #partner #relations

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#crowd #i #never #part #teens

To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#act #alarm #am #captain #department