#yin

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#existential #express #general #going #i

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#believe #brought #figure #how #i

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#commercial #means #necessarily #out #people

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#dying #easy #living #me #scares

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#acting school #actor #around #been #bring

Ever since Marilyn Monroe was transformed from one of the prettiest girls you could ever hope to see into an icon, everyone has been trying to repeat that icon. And now the entire industry is filled with, and by and large run by, wannabes. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#could #entire #ever #everyone #filled

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#change #clear #deal #great #great deal

I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#crisis #deal #fashion #grasping #great

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#always #exciting #last #life #only

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#dead #i #me #off #pleased