#soap

To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around. ↗

— David Canary

#act #am #around #best #challenging

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber. ↗

— Samuel Foote

#coming #cut #died #garden #great

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#coverage #day #doing #how #i

I started in this business on soap operas. ↗

— Lauren Holly

#i #operas #soap #soap operas #started

Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap. ↗

— Howard Hughes

#distinct #each #four #individual #lots

Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around. ↗

— Austin Peck

#fun #interesting #soap #something #special

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#comes #fear #higher #i #merchants

Blake looked around and gulped. He'd forgotten about the mess on the floor. Chamber pot shards, his shaving kit, a towel or two... "I... ah..." It seemed to him that it was far easier to lie for the sake of national security than it was to his older sister. "Is that a bar of soap stuck to the wall?" Penelope asked. "Um... yes, it appears to be. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#soap #humor

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#movies #problems #reality #soap-opera #truth

She felt faintly embarrassed by the sheer profusion of things she had for putting in baths, but she was for some reason incapable of passing any chemist’s or herb shop without going in to be seduced by some glass-stoppered bottle of something blue or green or orange or oily that was supposed to restore the natural balance of some vague substance she didn’t even know she was supposed to have in her pores. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#baths #females #nature