#wrestle

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#am #authenticity #falling #feeling #i

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it. ↗

— Jimmy Stewart

#finally #happy #i #out #over

I wish I could say I gulp pure courage as I run, like those brave little girls you read about in stories, ... But this burst of speed comes from an older adrenaline, some limbic other. Not courage, but a deeper terror. I don't want to be left alone. And I am ready to defend Ossie against whatever monster I encounter, ... and save her for myself. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #courage

Flushed with the explosive shit of a sumo wrestler who ate Mexican food. ↗

— Hillary Frank

#hillary-frank #i-can-t-tell-you #mexican-food #wrestler #food

The way I wrestle five-year-olds makes me think if I were ever attacked by a pack of midgets, I’d be OK.
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— Jarod Kintz

#attacked #children #funny #humor #kids

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #home

We keep giggling, happy and nervous, tickled by an incomplete innocence. We both sense that some dark joke is being played on us, even if we can't quite grasp the punch line. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #home

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#calling #divine #i #i think #mean

Love is like trying to wrestle an albino. It’s tough because they’re slippery and all lubed up with sunscreen.
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— Jarod Kintz

#albino #love #lube #slip #slippery

In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled. ↗

— Verne Troyer

#college #friends #high #high school #school