#times

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#fiction #fiction writer #go #illumination #interesting

In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take. ↗

— Dakota Fanning

#because #during #fun #funny #funny stuff

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. ↗

— Carol Alt

#fiction #sometimes #stranger #than

I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times. ↗

— Richard Farnsworth

#demille #few #i #quite #times

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#court #court cases #felony #i #juries

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#around #asked #demanded #high #i

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted. ↗

— Dee Brown

#back #been #book #came #done

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that. ↗

— James Brown

#everybody #family #feed #forget #hard

I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world. ↗

— James Brown

#came #face #fight #five #four

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#because #blush #bodily #brow #dead