"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."

-- Gene Tierney

#Girl Quotes #Careers Quotes #Chinese Quotes

“What are we afraid of? We're afraid of the truth. We're pretending that we live in a democracy, and we're pretending we're free. The insanity is that we live inside of the false stories that we tell each other.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“Work is always an antidote to depression.”
“The introduction of numbers as coordinates is an act of violence.”

Source : "Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science".
“I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world.”
“Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.”
“For my money, Ray Brown is the greatest living bass player. Every great thing that's happened on bass since Ray Brown -- all of us point back to him. That's where it started, you know. Ray Brown is definitely a walking master, and to get to play with him is obviously an opportunity that no one should ever pass up.”
“No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand
“One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.”

You may also like:

Ava Gardner
Actress
Cornel Wilde
Actor
Dana Andrews
Film actor
Hedy Lamarr
Actress
Lana Turner
Film actress
Lauren Bacall
Film actress
Oleg Cassini
Fashion designer
Otto Preminger
Theatre Director
Rita Hayworth
Dancer