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Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay.

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• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Free
  • Simplicity

• We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Same

• Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • You
  • Kind
  • Seeing

• You must always do what you feel is right.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • You
  • Always
  • Feel

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.

  

  Zendaya
  • Kids
  • Older
  • Brothers

• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Inspiration
  • Patience

• I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Film
  • Hero
  • Fans

• But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Acting
  • Teaching
  • Profession

• For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Man
  • Health
  • Sickness

• I like part-time jobs in restaurants.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Time
  • Like
  • Jobs

• I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • House
  • Options
  • New Yorker

• I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Life
  • Done
  • Kids

• I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Size
  • Jeans

• I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.

  

  Jonas Mekas
  • Work
  • Real
  • Friends

• Writers will happen in the best of families.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Happens

• I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

  

  Frank Auerbach
  • Picture

• The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Real
  • Challenge

• I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

  

  Antony Hewish
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Challenge

• Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay.

  

  Plato
  • Challenge
  • Bears
  • Decay