#tin

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#believes #both #disconcerting #discover #fascinating

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#america #art #art form #because #dying

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk. ↗

— W. L. George

#capacity #cause #collar #connects #correlate

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer. ↗

— Melissa George

#act #acting #after #along #any

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#acquired taste #complicates #free #instinctively #left

Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show. ↗

— David Gerrold

#bizarre #course #enjoy #gets #interesting

And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to me for my mortal companion. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#victorian #writing-life #change

Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit. ↗

— Greta Gerwig

#also #bad #bit #doing #earned

I think as an actress, I prefer having a character on the page. It allows you to be more invested in actually creating a whole person. It's easier when you're not trying to come up with your next line on the spot. ↗

— Greta Gerwig

#actually #allows #character #come #creating

Life started getting good when I started making money. ↗

— Balthazar Getty

#good #i #life #making #making money