#trait

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#even #fascinated #funnier #her #i

I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#i #myself #traitor

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#i #me #more #people #photograph

Each character represented a trait that resides in me. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#each #me #represented #resides #trait

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. ↗

— Erica Jong

#forebears #grandfather #living #mother #painted

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels. ↗

— John Selden

#call #heels #his #man #tis

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#emily #fervently #gods #gotten #herman

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#doubts #fearing #good #lose #make

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#does #easily #gets #his #into

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#been #being #could #further #i