#ike

But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now. ↗

— Rick Moody

#going #i #important #incessant #irrelevant

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#singing #singing voice #speaking #voice

For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it. ↗

— Ron Moody

#artists #believes #belly #fix #getting

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level. ↗

— Robert Moog

#designs #details #done #effective #electronics

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#course #grew #i #like #up

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother? ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#bother #getting #i #like #pick

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable. ↗

— Liv Ullmann

#because #contact #free #good #just

Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral. ↗

— Henry Moore

#like #me #picture #seeing

Actually I did, because I saw the film like everyone else, ten years ago and I remembered some of it. I just wanted to see it, to kind of remember the tone a little bit. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#ago #because #bit #did #else

With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#age #ages #anything #anyway #cares