#playground

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#i #living #mother #playground #pretend

the zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different. --Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men ↗

— Padgett Powell

#men

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world. ↗

— Sai Baba

#false #full #ideals #illusion #influenced

everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short. ↗

— Harry Crews

#family

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#child #clean #cover #good #ought

Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#being #going #like #movie #movie set

you just had to be still and have faith, that was the main thing. ↗

— Jim Dodge

#faith

a wife's faithful to her husband, subject to him. it's in the bible. ↗

— Elmore Leonard

#faith

If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#aware #because #bottom #bring #child

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#believes #child #children #fact #go