#tending

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#dare #embarrass #liberating #pretending #risk

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#audience #deliver #few #gifted #like

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible. ↗

— Isaac Butt

#attending #birth #buried #date #death

A purposeful act or extension of kindness to another is never wasted, for it always resides in the hearts of all involved in a chain of love. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#extending-your-heart #happiness #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #kindness

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#acting #artifice #falsehood #game #games

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert. ↗

— June Allyson

#because #concert #excitement #film #fine

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#being #brought #detail #entertained #familiar

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#conventional #copyright #day #disguised #distinctive

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting. ↗

— John Hurt

#business #essence #game #me #other

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead. ↗

— Og Mandino

#always #better #better life #day #dead