#up

It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#dressing #existing #i #i love #idea

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#america #europe #everyone #god #grown-up

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#death #easy #elbows #even #hands

A lot of people my age think stand up sucks. ↗

— Aziz Ansari

#lot #people #stand #stand up #sucks

I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it. ↗

— Aziz Ansari

#before #friends #had #hadn #hanging

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years. ↗

— Adam Ant

#guitar #i #may #minute #pen

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience. ↗

— David Antin

#colored #develop #differently #experience #family

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. ↗

— David Antin

#everybody #everybody else #find #giving #giving up

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose. ↗

— Mary Antin

#children #examined #heart #heavy #jewish

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. ↗

— Joyce Appleby

#avoid #contention #creating #discourses #inseparable