#person

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#find #i #intelligible #interest #liking

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#book #buy #comes #course #i

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#age #child #classmates #funny #i

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true. ↗

— Alan Alda

#actor #artist #otherwise #personal #ring

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger. ↗

— Alan Alda

#angry #angry person #flashes #get #i

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#appetite #components #desire #does #ideal

Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#may #object #partly #perceive #perception

Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#because #complete #ideal #just #life

In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person. ↗

— Robert Evans

#get #good #material #only #people

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. ↗

— Mose Allison

#concerned #essentials #far #i #improvisation