#vin

I'm a very lucky girl who gets to act for a living! So why sit around griping and grousing about what's not there. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#act #around #gets #girl #i

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#am #how #i #i am #i have learned

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#force #inestimable #living #practical #sense

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#difficult #feel #grief #i #i feel

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#corner #day #down #eye #her

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. ↗

— John Leonard

#bad #bad times #boldness #cellars #hand

I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#am #being #described #had #having

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#because #feel #flat #incredulity #lives

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#being lazy #drinking #everything #except #lazy

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth. ↗

— Jared Leto

#around #artists #celebrated #child #clear