#seem

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God. ↗

— Judy Davis

#dramatic #god #got #ideas #men

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#i #known #life #like #makes

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are. ↗

— William Devane

#feeding #how #myth #politics #presidential

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#acting #actually #am #another #best

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage. ↗

— Joan Didion

#child #engage #failed #flat #had

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#first #first of all #i #kind #lincoln

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#although #antiquated #begun #course #had

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#fact #first #habits #half #in fact

When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

#collapse #doing #felt #home #like

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#feel #growth #made #organized #science