#mary

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance? ↗

— Colin Firth

#afterwards #big #case #instinct #me

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty. ↗

— Roberta Flack

#good #honesty #performance #primary #qualities

Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment. ↗

— Curt Flood

#apart #customary #does #environment #existed

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. ↗

— Ken Follett

#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#amount #certain #control #customary #even

The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need. ↗

— Nancy Travis

#alarming #almost #care #china #cities

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#comes #elsewhere #family #family farm #farm

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#changing #choices #conditions #exist #life

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#audiences #big #brought #contemporary #create

I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#baker #billie #billie holiday #black #called