#ty

I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted. ↗

— David Duchovny

#actor #feel #granted #hard #i

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. ↗

— Voltaire

#certainty #condition #doubt #pleasant

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw. ↗

— David Duchovny

#celebrities #celebrity #country #death #human

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#truth #beauty

[T[his isn’t just “another day, another dollar.” It’s more like “another day, another miracle.” (213) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#daily-living #life #mindfulness #miracles #perspective

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#expression #first #had #i #instrument

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#city #cultural #ethnic #great #los

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#hatred #increasing #majority #oppression #such

It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#anxiety #audience #going #half #hour

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope. ↗

— Aberjhani

#election-year-politics #hate-crimes #hatred #humanity #hypocrisy