#secretly

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#any #buy #could #friends #going

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#exists #i #reality #secretly #speculate

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you? ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#being a girl #degrading #girl #know #like

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song. ↗

— Peter Gallagher

#attempt #dean #dean martin #enjoyed #everybody

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel. ↗

— Sprague Grayden

#any #big #channel #day #discovery

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#consistently #fall #get #go #leave

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. ↗

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

#across #between #both #cement #charged

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#always #betrayal #espionage #finding #give

I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always putting that message out there. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#always #appreciate #day #different #felt