"I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback."

-- Merritt Wever

#Work Out Quotes #Acting Quotes #Used Quotes

“Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.”
“The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.”
“I love Audrey Hepburn, early Brooke Shields, and Madonnas eyebrows. I think its beautiful if women look soft and touchable instead of hard, sharp and aggressively groomed.”
“Historically, measures initially directed at foreign nationals have subsequently been extended to citizens. What happens is foreign nationals are the easiest targets and most vulnerable targets, so they're the initial targets. But government officials, once you give them a certain kind of power over individuals, they get used to it and almost inevitably seek out ways to extend it. You will see that virtually every form of repressive government measure that has been employed in the United States against citizens started out as an antialien measure and was then extended to citizens.”
“I wanted to get the fastest time in the world this year, but with everything going on, it's a pretty decent swim, ... I knew I was under world record pace. You could tell by the crowd. You can always tell at these meets when something good is going on because of the crowd.”
“Iâ€™ll read my books and Iâ€™ll drink coffee and Iâ€™ll listen to music, and Iâ€™ll bolt the door.”
“I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.”
“Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.”

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