"Being an actor lets me be a million different things."

-- Meryl Streep

#Different Quotes #Actors Quotes #Let Me Quotes

“To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.”

Source : Franz Kline, Fred Mitchell, Albert Boime (1977). “Franz Kline, the Early Works as Signals: Exhibition University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York 14 March-18 April, 1977 and Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, New York 27 September - 6 November 1977”
“I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.”

Source : "Christian Lacroix: 'I am not nostalgic for the past'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.
“The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.”
“The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.”

Source : Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.48, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“Family time is the best time.”
“That one person that says "I heard your stuff and I really like this." It really touches my heart because it's what I love to do. I'd rather do it for the people than do it for a machine, a company that just wants to make money.”
“The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense has no following and is tartly reminded that 'it isn't in the dictionary' - although down to the time of the first lexicographer no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary.”
“In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.”

Source : Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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