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“I love theatre. It's far more satisfying than film. Sometimes there's a collective sigh from the audience, or it's so quiet you can hear a pin drop. I couldn't believe how easy acting was when there's an audience; after a few previews I almost couldn't do it without one.”

Believe Sometimes Film Easy Acting Audience Quiet Theatre Collectives Satisfying Sigh Pins Preview

Author:Katie Leung

“Action film is really easy to do, you just get in a car and smash through things and it's called action. The real key is what happens between the action when it's quiet. Loud is easy. Quiet, real hard.”

Real Hard Happens Action Film Easy Car Keys Quiet Loud Action Films

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.”

Ifs Want Littles Easy Difficult Quiet Easy Life Difficult Relationship

Author:Fay Weldon

“November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.”

Different Easy Sound Born Imagine Air Wind Quiet Conquer Caves November

Author:Gladys Taber

“Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.”

Men Easy Quiet Fairs Anger Angry Storm Weather Welcome Lightning Thunder Tempest Ungrateful Thunder And Lightning

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.”

Hard Actors Easy Quiet Mad Scenery

Author:Sarah Caldwell

“When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice.”

Thinking World Writing Whole Stories Values Easy Hours Common Practice Alive Solitude Quiet Letters Whole World Thoughtful Lap Inner Life

Author:Vivian Gornick

“It was easy and fun [filming in Hail, Caesar!], and I think it's easy to be intimidated by the Coen brothers, because they're quiet. They don't heap praise, especially upon themselves. It's not like they're walking around thinking they're the greatest thing on Earth.”

Thinking Earth Fun Easy Brother Walking Quiet Praise Intimidated Hail Coen Brothers

Author:David Krumholtz

“I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.”

Thinking Believe Book I Believe Easy Missing Quiet My Friends Masquerade

Author:Jesse Ball

“For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot." And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves.”

“In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.”

World Easy History This World Terrible Quiet Corners

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.”

Fear Easy Quiet Yoga Calm Command Calmness Serene Stay Calm Autobiography Of A Yogi Remaining Calm

Book:Self-realization

Source: Self-realization

“There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.”

Ifs Giving Writing Mind Book Easy Solitude Quiet Remedy Cheerfulness

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)

“He laced his fingers through mine and lifted my hand to his lips. I had gloves on, but he kissed exactly where I wore his ring. “Why are you so sweet?” I asked, my voice small. My heart beat rapidly, and every star peeping through the clouds seemed to be shining just for me. “I don’t think I’m that sweet. I mean, I just told you to be quiet. That’s one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.” “You know what I mean.” Seth pressed another kiss to my forehead. “I’m sweet because you make it easy to be sweet.”

Thinking Knows Heart Mean Hands Stars Easy Voice Steps Mines Sweet My Heart Quiet Kissing Beats Asking Shining Fingers Lips Clouds Rings Sandwiches Foreheads Gloves Laundry Heart Beat Peeping

Book:Succubus Dreams

Source: Succubus Dreams

“summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.”

“One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.”

Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha

“He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.”

Easy Quiet Expected Secretive

Book:The Wolf Gift

Source: The Wolf Gift

“She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.”

Looks Would Be Romance Fun Easy Risk Willing Adventure Habit Quiet Painful Plenty Looking Back

Book:Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel

“The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.”

Moments Romance Easy Company Quiet Busy Chairs March Aunt Naps Quiet Place Bookworms

Book:Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…

Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…

“If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.”

Ifs Enough Seems Moving Easy Quiet Let Me Edges Bridges Fallen Over You Good Enough Hanging On Let Me Go Being Quiet

Author:Margaret Atwood

“There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts--it was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved--but the fat woman's act was about the quiet conviction that one shared only with oneself, a sense of rightness that others failed to see.”

People World Easy Quiet Safe Size Oneself Conviction Legs Fats Display Platforms Skirts Approved Slender Thrice Short Skirts Fat Women

Book:Americanah

Source: Americanah