"Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence."

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Source : Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”

Mary Astor

#Adversity Quotes #Problem Quotes #Grew Quotes

“Has anybody here ever been driving along in their car, smoking a cigarette, and you flick it out the window, and you drive for a few miles, and you start to smell smoke, and you turn around, and you look in the backseat, and grandma is playing with herself?”
“That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.”
“Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.”
“A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.”

Source : E. J. Bellocq, Lee Friedlander, John Szarkowski (1970). “E.J. Bellocq: Storyville portraits, photographs from the New Orleans red-light district, circa 1912”
“I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you. So it's an interesting challenge, an interesting line to walk.”
“One of the biggest challenges I have with certain clients is convincing them to take a vacation - metaphorically. You're dealing with egos, and with egos the answer to everything is "more me." Sometimes the situation calls for less you.”
“Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.”
“The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.”

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