#occasion

I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job. ↗

— Alexis Bledel

#certain #i #job #learned #occasions

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

#going #hate #i #i wish #normally

Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution. ↗

— William Bligh

#augmented #caution #conduct #did #general

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#attach #go #i #i remember #importance

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#always #education #family #grow #had

That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but nobody really expected me to do well on clay - it was my worst surface. I had had some success on the clay but I was a set and a break up in the semi-final against Jausovec and maybe the enormity of the occasion got to me. ↗

— Jo Durie

#been #big #big break #break #break up

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion. ↗

— George Eliot

#any #feeling #general #little #much

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#around #context #deliberately #i #i am

We will host the Asean summit in November this year. It will be an occasion to reflect on our achievements collectively and to look at how Asean can maintain its leading role in regional and international cooperation. ↗

— Hassanal Bolkiah

#asean #collectively #cooperation #host #how

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. ↗

— Brian Eno

#had #history #intrusions #music #occasional