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Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#composers #form #found #many #only

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance. ↗

— Joan Didion

#girl #i #impulse #little #little girl

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. ↗

— Joan Didion

#am #best #best interests #counter #forget

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. ↗

— Joan Didion

#been #course #flawless #great #hotels

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#everything #mexican #really #spanish

That's something a point guard can always work on, with keeping his dribble alive a little better. It's so important. ↗

— Steve Blake

#always #better #dribble #guard #his

I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day. ↗

— Casper Van Dien

#bounce #day #days #four #hours

You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#afraid #back #congratulations #doing #everyone

I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#another #any #applying #approach #different

I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#care #dancer #enough #get #good