#tag

The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten. ↗

— James Buchan

#economic #events #forgotten #getting #getting older

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this. ↗

— Emma Bunton

#every #every time #go #i #i do

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

#african #african american #american #american children #children

In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#augmented #benefits #burdens #characteristic #community

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#dad #i #like #me #mother

If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man. ↗

— Billie Burke

#better #ever #him #i #i love

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#chances #commitment #dancing #even #famous

When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#black #eyes #faces #front #get

I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#audience #because #feel #hear #i

I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#be kind #def #director #drums #festival