"The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth."

-- Ed Asner

#Character Quotes #Essentials Quotes #Needs Quotes

“If you can't outplay them, outwork them.”
“My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.”
“Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.”

Source : Mark Akenside, John Dyer (1855). “The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside and John Dyer Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott”, p.15
“You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.”
“It is [every womanâ€™s] right to ignore the dictates of fashion and dress in a manner that is becoming to her own character and personality.”
“[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in the Southern States, bubblegum pop from the sixties, torch songs from the forties, undersea caves where B-movie octopi grapple with men in loincloths, sacred groves of pink anime dryads, Victorian fairy paintings executed by gentlemen in lunatic asylums and so on.”
“Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.”
“Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success.”

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