#thin

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#any #bad #felt #great #gregory

Nothing good ever comes of violence. ↗

— Martin Luther

#ever #good #nothing #violence

The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#double #double meaning #expression #front #got

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent. ↗

— Joan Plowright

#nothing #sexy #talent

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#any #causes #civil #civil war #extract

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#area #because #bring #chemical #i

Be moderate in everything, including moderation. ↗

— Horace Porter

#including #moderate #moderation

There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#couple #every #hundred #members #probably

It's not like I have a master plan or anything. ↗

— Gretchen Mol

#i #like #master #master plan #plan

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things. ↗

— Phylicia Rashad

#beat #been #child #give #go