#you

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#core #display #even #great #had

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#backwards #come #curious #forward #grandparents

As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face. ↗

— James Purefoy

#face #gentle #get #little #pies

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#anxious #behalf #duty #old #scorn

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you. ↗

— Al Purdy

#always #certain #certain age #how #other

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes. ↗

— James Purefoy

#because #decide #different #early #famous

Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that. ↗

— James Purefoy

#calories #complicated #dieting #eat #off

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next. ↗

— James Purefoy

#dying #extreme #hospitals #maternity #minute

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#bath #enough #even #fleas #go

If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it. ↗

— James Purefoy

#always #am #been #being #corner