A Quotes
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“All actors have to change their name.”
“All actors have to make the words fit in their mouths, and make the words the words fit to how you say it and how you make it life-like and make it look like what you're saying is just conversation that you're just thinking off the top of your head. That process is not quite improvisation.”
“All actors should experience public failure.”
“All actors think every job will be their last.”
“All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.”
“All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.”
Source: The Woman Who Fell from The Sky: Poems
“All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.”
“All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals”
“All acts of sex were forms of degradation. Some random recollections: East 11th Street, on the bed with Murray Groman: “Swallow this mother ’til you choke.” East 11th Street, in the bed with Gary Becker: “The trouble with you is, you’re such a shallow person.” East 11th Street, up against the wall with Peter Baumann: “The only thing that turns me on about you is pretending you’re a whore.” Second Avenue, the kitchen, Michael Wainwright: “Quite frankly, I deserve a better-looking, better-educated girlfriend.” What do you do with the Serious Young Woman (short hair, flat shoes, body slightly hunched, head drifting back and forth between the books she’s read)? You slap her, fuck her up the ass and treat her like a boy. The Serious Young Woman looked everywhere for sex but when she got it it became an exercise in disintegration. What was the motivation of these men? Was it hatred she evoked? Was it some kind of challenge, trying to make the Serious Young Woman femme?”
Source: I Love Dick
“All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.”
“All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which must be fruitful in other consequences besides those particular acts.”
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.”
Source: Poetical works
“All actual life is encounter.”
Source: I and Thou
“All addictions are primitive and negative manifestations of a person's deeper needs. They are a sign that the person longs for a soul connection and an everlasting bliss.”
Source: When the Soul Heals - Explorations in Spiritual Psychology
“All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.”
Source: Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments
“All adults should strive to be more like children.”
“All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby.... Each adult wishes that he or she could do each job a bit more skillfully for the infant or small child than the other.”
Source: TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE
“All adventure is now reactionary.”
“All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.”
Source: To Space & Back
“All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!”
Source: Letters to a Friend
“All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.”
“All advertising advertises advertising.”
“All Advertising is essentially a promise of future happiness.”
“All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.”
Source: Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated
“All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.”
Source: The Proud Highway: Rejacketed
“All Advices Fail If there is no will.”
“All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich”
“All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn;
Object of my implacable disgust.”
Source: The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative
“All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the satisfaction of everyone's interests, and the consequences are preferred to those of known alternative possibilities for regulation.”
“All affections, friendships, and relationships are connected with only one feeling, Love.”
“All afternoon, all evening, I lay on the couch, wrapped inside a quilt of sitcoms, the same commercials stitching them together.”
Source: The Furrows
“All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?”
“All age is a kind of tiredness, I think. When you’re young, the lines never show. Every morning you wake unmarked, wiped clear by sleep. One day, though, you see lines that itch, as though some crumb of existence has been creased into your skin. They can never be smoothed away, and after a while you forget that this heavy, irritable feeling wasn’t always there.”
Source: In a Dark Wood
“All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.”
“All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.”
“All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now has measured up to and, strictly considered, no one should. With all their study and effort, people are directed to what is outside, to the world about them, and they are kept busy coming to know this and to master it to the extent that their purposes require. . . . How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.”
“All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.”
Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
“All ages serve and worship the same God, gather under the same gospel and add to the collective song that praises the faithfulness of God as each generation shares in his promises to us.”
“All agreed that Quickset was the cleverest cat in the world. And, since Quickset had the same opinion, it was surely true.”
“All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.”
“All Aligned Healing is an independent venture to facilitate healing strategies for the public. The knowledge has been conceptualized exclusively to instruct people to listen to their hearts & mind, do meditation, and reap the advantages of healing techniques.”
“All alike, you men. You only want the satisfaction of being through with us first, that's all. So far I've had the good fortune of beating you to it. So I am heartless.”
“All, all, becomes profitable. Education is of the most satisfying and available nature. I am at Smith! Which two years ago was a doubtful dream - and that fortuitous change of dream to reality has led me to desire more, and to lash myself onward - onward.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.”
“All alone by the telephone.”
“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!”
Source: Oh, the Places You'll Go! and The Lorax
“All along I'd vaguely assumed the emptiness and the pain meant I was doing something wrong. But maybe it was all just part of the process so something new could be born. First the barrenness, to make space. Then the pain, which is the only way to a birth.”
Source: I Was Blind (Dating), But Now I See: My Misadventures in Dating, Waiting, and Stumbling into Love
“All along, I remembered her wanting me to be the best, always the best, but somehow I forgot that she still loved me when I wasn’t.”
Source: No One Here Is Lonely
“All along, I thought I was protecting the kids. Shielding them from realities behind closed doors. Sacrificing to maintain a two-parent Christian home. Making hard, better choices for their faith, family, and education than I made for myself, trying to safeguard them from pain.
But they saw. That was obvious now. And staying meant raising sons who hit women. Staying meant raising a daughter who stayed with the man who hit her. And that would be my fault. I'd be the one who taught them life like this was okay. I didn't just let erratic violence continue happening---I helped by refusing to leave. Good mothers don't let this happen to their kids.”
Source: A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy