#lightly

My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#being #childhood #from time to time #i #little

So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had. ↗

— Carly Simon

#fashion #had #happened #i #mature

When they meet a stand-up comic, people sometimes remark: 'That must be the hardest job in the world.' Among comedians, only Freddie Starr is not embarrassed and slightly appalled by this remark. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#appalled #comedians #comic #embarrassed #freddie

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. ↗

— William Styron

#exhausted #experiences #great #great book #leave

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#dew #edges #leaf #life #lightly

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#cracked #egg #even #friend #knows

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#i #lightly #paint #picture #seriously

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#any #each #every #fact #giving

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply. ↗

— John Buchan

#deeply #disliked #emotion #felt #lightly

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings. ↗

— Frank Stella

#became #because #believed #brokers #doctors