Irving Babbitt Quotes
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
Irving Babbitt
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
Ed O'Brien
Radiohead
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
Ian Mcewan
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson
Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
W. Bruce Cameron
What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.
Tasha Smith
Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
Sally Phillips
I love the Mexican muralists - like Rivera, Orozco - and the music of Walter Benton. They gave you a sense that reality was much more than life.
Billy Dee Williams
When I started acting, everyone told me to get a backup in case it didn't work out; if there was something else I could have done, I would have done it. Acting should never be your chosen path if you can help it.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
I was learning that, even for a woman with power, the path was dotted with land mines—she's so ambitious. she's so aggressive. she's ruthless. 'Funny thing,' I used to say, 'a man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.'
Marlo Thomas
Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
Ida Lupino
I used to live in Pillgwenlly, and there was this old Italian pizzeria that used to be there with a really amazing character who ran it.
Asif Kapadia
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
Irving Babbitt
