#starve

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them? ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#actor #arms #brain #brain cells #cells

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#democratic #depend #find #must #nations

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#death #eat #hope #slowly #starve

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#did #hip #musicians #nothing #other

I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#decades #every #every time #good #hire

When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself. ↗

— Jane Kaczmarek

#got #i #i think #just #lois

You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships.You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#food #harlan #hunger #starve #woods

Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hunger. The summer catch had been poor; there wasn't much food. They ate with care and looked sideways at the old: the old were gluttons, everybody knew it, and what was the good of feeding them? It wouldn't harm them to starve a little. The hungry dogs howled. The women rinsed the children's bellies with hot water three times a day, so they wouldn't cry so much for food. The old starved silently. ("The North") ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#hunger #oldl-starve #poor #poverty #starvation

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go. ↗

— Frank Leslie

#as far as #care #childhood #far #freedom

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#certain #experiment #favorites #go #i