#sca

As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, 'That's where all the crazy people go.' It really sort of frightened me. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#crazy people #down #feel #frightened #go

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#auditioned #great #i #just #never

I was kind of scared of failing at acting. ↗

— James Franco

#failing #i #kind #scared

And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere! ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#editors #everywhere #great #know #leaves

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#each #good #habit #make #might

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary. ↗

— Anna Friel

#being #brain #empowerment #feeling #forget

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#despair #escape #faith #into #narrow

The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies. ↗

— David Frum

#anywhere #beneficiaries #big #constituencies #farmers

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#discarded #like #power #something #underwear

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#cloak #drop #even #explanation #facts