#putting

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#becoming #complexity #constructed #day-to-day #democracy

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it. ↗

— Annette Bening

#about #acting #another #another way #being

I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them. ↗

— Annette Bening

#awards #ceremonies #during #feet #husband

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#dead #fork #instrument #into #mouth

I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#hesitant #i #myself #nervous #out

I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that. ↗

— Frank Black

#children #i #i write #kids #like

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#books #course #five #forward #given

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#empty #flamboyant #genius #labels #luggage

If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#burden #continue #does #dollars #economy

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#about #ago #brash #career #century