#ra

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#dinner #frame #friends #human #human frame

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#backbone #behold #characters #enough #given

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#artist #be grateful #beyond #grace #grateful

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#america #american #american culture #business #centre

When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#big budget #budget #camera #difference #front

I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?' ↗

— James Belushi

#character #comedy #dad #did #funny

When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl. ↗

— Pat Benatar

#because #came #could #day #down

But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it. ↗

— Richie Benaud

#actions #annoys #commercial #doing #find

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#afraid #phobias #tell #us #will

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#any #author #come #easily #great