#thing

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C. ↗

— Eric Liu

#around #articles #asked #black #black and white

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#fail #failed #first #happen #horrible

If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess. ↗

— Ron Livingston

#cards #going #guess #happen #long

Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else! ↗

— Ron Livingston

#else #firing #happy #i #idea

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair. ↗

— David Livingstone

#earthly #give #make #me #nothing

I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time. ↗

— Kelly Macdonald

#coming #concerned #drive #got #hugely

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.' ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#because #better #career #comes #control

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#comfort #comfort zone #different #doing #fussy

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#belongs #everything #free #free will #glory

One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#day #done #him #i #love