#anti

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth. ↗

— Bono

#cursed #digging #drilling #get #happy

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.' ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#comedy #famous #get #girl #i

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together. ↗

— David Bowie

#anything #been #both #commitments #could

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#analysis #appreciation #beauty #course #gave

Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me. ↗

— Jo Brand

#bit #cause #i #initial #kill

Anatasia You Are My More My Love, My Life Christian ↗

— E.L. James

#romantic #life

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#avoided #because #created #different #different roles

I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic. ↗

— Barbara Broccoli

#bond #british #certain #character #classical

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. ↗

— Xun Zi

#bad #being #controlled #corrected #kings

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#after #become #beginning #essence #impossibility