#pre

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#certain #declare #either #fools #inhabitants

The only thing I wasn't prepared for was being everywhere all at the same time. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#everywhere #i #only #prepared #same

When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#grow #grow up #person #pretty #quickly

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#being #being honest #book #finished #here

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. ↗

— Marie Curie

#child #confronting #fairy #fairy tales #him

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries. ↗

— Tim Curry

#business #different #i #i think #industries

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write. ↗

— Catie Curtis

#hard #i #me #need #pretty

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#less #like #me #more #other

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#i #interested #less #lot #me

The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience. ↗