#unnatural

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#city #country #darkness #familiar #friendly

Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#acting #amadeus #appeared #audience #broadway

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#impossible #nothing #physically #unnatural

This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#father #unnatural #age

Forever Beautiful, Forever Mine. ↗

— Michael Griffo

#michael-griffo #unafraid #unnatural #unwelcome #beauty

The supernatural is not as it claims, for it is inherently unnatural; it seeks to separate us from our natural world. ↗

— Joe Iacovino

#iacovino #religion #supernatural #unnatural #nature

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#life #may #only #out #say

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#idea #me #opposed #selfishness #unnatural

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#desert #i #i can #outside #people

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#because #everyone #feel #feels #going