#real

I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#craft #equipped #felt #had #highest

I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#mine #quality #quite #read #really

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#confer #convinced #exist #greatest #honors

It really depends, but, generally speaking, just because of the mechanics of it, voice-over is easier because there is no hair, no makeup, no wardrobe, no fittings, no line memorizing. You don't have to me woken up in Russia at 6 in the morning and go film a scene. It's just easier on the body, the family life to do voice-overs. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#body #depends #easier #family #family life

When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#come #personality #quick #real #thin

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can. ↗

— Joe Namath

#best #doing #everything #i #i think

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind. ↗

— Augustus Y. Napier

#conscious #conscious mind #greatest #impediments #intent

I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#began #being #cars #come #could

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#authoritative #community #expert #global #illiteracy

We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#armed #bloodshed #contradiction #danger #dialogue