#who

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#director #even #ever #good #look

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#dead #experience #ghosts #life #night

I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me. ↗

— Adele

#course #hang #i #insecurities #me

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin. ↗

— Aeschylus

#free #free will #happiness #his #just

God always strives together with those who strive. ↗

— Aeschylus

#god #strive #strives #those #together

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#himself #makes #making #man #others

Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#been #changes #expect #fellow #full

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants. ↗

— Henry Adams

#come #damnation #god #goodness #happy

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#begin #color #different #different color #different kind

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. ↗

— Henry Adams

#man #only #through #who #woman