#accident

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#character #characters #command #context #create

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#any #compulsion #compulsive #down #impulse

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#accidentally #day #enjoyed #ever #gin

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide. ↗

— Larry Elder

#accidents #auto #black #cause #death

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#again #i #kind #looking #radio

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#almost #became #drama #drifted #film

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#america #city #crime #design #last

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#closely #excel #i #look #very

You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#born #control #eliminate #felt #how

I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV. ↗

— Daisy Fuentes

#asked #day #got #i #into