#very

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. ↗

— Hugo Black

#condition #first #full #happiness #lasting

I thought my character definitely was very much in love with him and wanted to be with him, but I think at some point they were going to have to draw the line. ↗

— Rosario Dawson

#definitely #draw #going #him #i

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#everybody #everything #house #i #i think

Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#being #connection #ears #feel #just

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#art #beauty #colour #forms #good

I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#homemaker #i #interested #just #kind

Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#character #everyone #feel #harder #i

Tyler Perry's 'Madea Goes to Jail!' Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I've ever done in my career, that's the only thing that's perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that's done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes! ↗

— Viola Davis

#bona fide #career #done #ears #ever

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. ↗

— Viola Davis

#acting #age #environment #escaping #grew

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#everywhere #had #i #i see #lifestyle