#otherwise

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#because #diverted #innocence #lot #novels

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take. ↗

— James Callaghan

#always #bad #contingent #law #otherwise

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot. ↗

— Brendan Fehr

#because #camera #character #excuse #feel

I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#doing #i #job #me #must

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now. ↗

— Jane Campion

#better #cinema #conservative #daring #go

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#easily #fall #frequently #good #good people

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point? ↗

— Courteney Cox

#friend #friends #i #lonely #otherwise

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead. ↗

— Peter Cushing

#business #commercial #commodity #dead #films

I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise. ↗

— Ted Danson

#beat #because #big #big business #business

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#another #bread #close #earned #free