#som

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#career #early #i #learned #lot

I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.' ↗

— Charlize Theron

#because #bed #being #cabinet #cabinets

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers. ↗

— Justin Theroux

#famous #good #good work #happens #i

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#copy #doing #else #fails #life

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#approval #because #certainly #confident #dad

Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#acting #actually #always #attention #big

If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up. ↗

— Brandon Thomas

#hands #happy #know #line #one thing

Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive. ↗

— Brandon Thomas

#lifestyle #made #me #much #music

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#did #difference #grandparents #had #hard

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#drinks #like #much #someone #who