#par

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans. ↗

— Susan Lucci

#both #descent #different #different backgrounds #extremely

The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad? ↗

— Lorna Luft

#bobby #bobby kennedy #country #fell #gone

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#cherish #dismantled #library #prepared #something

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. ↗

— Sidney Lumet

#great #great work #happen #preparing #work

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#cherokee #felt #i #i think #indians

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#been #both #central #coasts #containing

On March 5th, I'm having my birthday celebration. The party starts at midnight, and ends at 12:01 AM. Don't be late! ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #funny

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

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#sacrifice #this-side-of-paradise #freedom

Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not. ↗

— John Leeson

#hair #i #i think #know #longer