#hat

I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running. ↗

— David Walliams

#enjoy #fat #i #kid #pain

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#artist #being #dream #her #illustrator

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest. ↗

— Herodotus

#greater #loves #punish #rest #than

I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is.' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!.' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend? ↗

— Julie Walters

#character #fat #friend #goes #happened

When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#becomes #book #comes #form #get

Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#democratic #destruction #directed #ever #frankly

I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else. ↗

— Vera Wang

#answered #back #best #businesses #calls

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means. ↗

— Chris Ware

#also #during #earlier #false #found

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age. ↗

— Chris Ware

#age #believe #destroys #development #i

I guess I just don't like being physically in front of people I don't know very well, because I expect to be "seen through," or, even worse, instantly hated. ↗

— Chris Ware

#being #even #even worse #expect #front