#ura

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#had #i #intellectual #interest #naturally

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. ↗

— Washington Irving

#dead #effect #elevate #mind #natural

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem. ↗

— Washington Irving

#effected #enemy #harm #least #most

I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#ham #i #me #natural #perform

Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard! ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#hard #inevitable #making #natural #obvious

I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway. ↗

— LL Cool J

#anyway #flying #helicopter #i #i do

The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that. ↗

— LL Cool J

#coal #different #doing #energy #enjoy

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#already #business #businesses #contract #drama

The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I'm naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn't even want to count. I need to balance that out. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#bulk #chickens #count #eaten #even

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#also #children #idea #natural #natural order