#pent

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever. ↗

— Brian Eno

#developing #exactly #feel #forever #get

I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet. ↗

— Steve Rasnic Tem

#carpentry #childhood #dancing #dreams #fantasy

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#being #day #how #i #long

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#cole porter #drawn #had #him #his

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#believe #committed #could #had #happened

If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#children #could #first #i #if i could

We are spending more as a percentage of our entire economy, almost 25 percent, than we have spent at any time since the end of World War II. ↗

— John Thune

#any #economy #end #entire #ii

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. ↗

— John W. Vessey, Jr.

#battlefield #because #been #english #english language

Dick Van Dyke spent most of his time setting everybody else up. ↗

— Dave Foley

#dyke #else #everybody #everybody else #his

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#childhood #complete #deal #disease #doing