#tart

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#attitudes #change #deep #enough #excellence

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death. ↗

— Peter Conrad

#announcement #death #faith #first #i

I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now? ↗

— Chuck Norris

#always #been #being #conservative #correct

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley. ↗

— Douglass North

#because #berkeley #did #feeling #go

My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school. ↗

— Douglass North

#boy #company #completed #even #father

Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#bizarre #doing #done #everyone #going

There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs. ↗

— Anne Northup

#before #chairs #how #learned #listening

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest. ↗

— Edward Norton

#corporate #degree #human #interest #people

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. ↗

— Edward Norton

#character #deeper #go #i #layers

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up. ↗

— Edward Norton

#character #ends #i #interesting #relate