#own

I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#bit #detriment #ever #friend #hope

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#anything #dancing #down #engage #feet

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#blood #characters #choose #family #formed

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#balk #book #certainly #children #easier

I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#buy #car #carded #crayons #down

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#call #dyed #hand #her #own

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#backbone #behold #characters #enough #given

When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl. ↗

— Pat Benatar

#because #came #could #day #down

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#before #boy #dog #down #importance

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#coming #downstairs #feel #hear #impulse