#spot

There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it. ↗

— David Copperfield

#find #job #safe #spot #tornado

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot. ↗

— Criss Jami

#criticism #envy #good-intentions #inspirational #intentions

The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#bookshelf #feeling #gone #i #i think

I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing. ↗

— Joan Van Ark

#been #commercials #doing #got #guest

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate. ↗

— William Floyd

#despotism #destruction #families #fate #fear

They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#cash #cheat #get #give #gonna

Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#away #coffee #did #difficult #easy

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#despotism #despots #divided #increases #more

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#despotism #government #liberty #revolutionary #tyranny

I think as an actress, I prefer having a character on the page. It allows you to be more invested in actually creating a whole person. It's easier when you're not trying to come up with your next line on the spot. ↗

— Greta Gerwig

#actually #allows #character #come #creating