#yourself

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#becomes #capturing #dance #easy #essence

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#because #courage #i #i think #just

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#argument #feel #height #mass #raise

Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#again #because #constant #control #easy

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. ↗

— Maya Lin

#art #because #harder #make #me

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#fend #flatter #generally #just #off

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#edit #go #important #important thing #learn

Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#ask #best #contrast #country #earth

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#asking #because #black #dismiss #dyke

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role. ↗

— Lori Loughlin

#character #developing #much #role #you