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I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover. ↗

— Paul Muni

#chinese #herbert #herbert hoover #hoover #i

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done. ↗

— Paul Muni

#art #been #business #done #how

Some kids are always getting into trouble or doing stuff, and I stay away from those types. I know I am no better than anyone else in this world. I'm just an actor, that's nothing special. But I'm not into anything bad. Just blackjack. ↗

— Frankie Muniz

#always #am #anyone #anything #away

This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship ... ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#friendship #art

She was wearing a beautiful dress with straps designed to be eaten off her shoulders. ↗

— Elise Valmorbida

#lust #spagetti-straps #beauty

The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something. ↗

— Olivia Munn

#acne #being #car #computer #does

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window. ↗

— Alice Munro

#bridge #hasn #i #learn #looking

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. ↗

— Alice Munro

#get #growing #happy #i #i think

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #america #asked #come #i

You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made? ↗

— Walter Murch

#beg #borrow #cards #credit #credit cards