The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas Carlyle
Recitation: by Male by Female
'Obvious Child,' the short, had a nice life online and a great festival run, but the short and the feature still stand apart from everything else I've done. I play a woman who you might meet in life. My other work is much more heightened.
Jenny Slate
LifeWorkGreatWomanChildStand
And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.
John Frankenheimer
GodThinkYouKnowHollywoodWrite
My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.
Jeff Ross
FunnyParentsBrainEnergySarcasm
I'm the last person who would end up doing something that needs meticulous compilation of facts. It's totally against my character. I live by impulse. I'm totally ill-suited to writing history books.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
LiveCharacterHistoryWritingEnd
I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me.
Tom Smothers
WorkMindMeBodyNervousOut
It's one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it's another thing to come up with useful solutions.
Molly Ivins
RichGrowingUpCancerOne Thing
I tend to kind of try to use what's in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don't already have.
Mitski
BestEnvironmentKindTryAbility
When I was a little girl, I was a real, drippy bookworm. But when I went into fashion, I stopped reading.
Lisa Jewell
GirlFashionReadingRealLittle
I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.
Jonathan Ke Quan
LovedYouActingAdolescenceAlways
My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House.
Ari Fleischer
GovernmentTeaControlSlowAdvice
I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
Wole Soyinka
CommunicationCultureWordsUpWhere
Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.
Muriel Humphrey
SpeechEternalImmortal
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