#iced

Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#director #down #feel #friends #hasn

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband. ↗

— Pat Nixon

#career #consider #everything #husband #i

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#i #left #much #noticed #sort

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#been #cant #commercial #commercial world #design

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#analogous #consciously #does #fact #fictional

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#did #dissipation #face #gave #give

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#being #commits #error #errors #essential

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#i #kick #kicks #man #once

I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#bit #especially #get #gets #go

Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#had #i #never #opportunity #practice