#indulgent

Sex mirrored our drinking; both defined our relationship: selfish, detached, indulgent and satisfying." A Change Is Gonna Come ↗

— B.J. Neblett

#change #drinking #dysfunctional #relationship #self-indulgent

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#enemy #every #fancies #far #friend

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first. ↗

— Laura Linney

#become #cry #easy #feel #first

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent. ↗

— Madame de Stael

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Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead. ↗

— Betsey Johnson

#ahead #being #blinders #full #garbage

I am pretty self-indulgent. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#i #i am #pretty #self-indulgent

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#bring #dismiss #effective #enabled #faculty

In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#competing #cumulative #effect #entirely #every

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#actor #cool #cool thing #few #follow

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#actor #cool #cool thing #drives #few