Mortas Del Quotes & Sayings

Dancers work really hard, they don't make any money. It's hard. — Andie MacDowell

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases. — Algernon Sidney

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you. — Charles Ghigna

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance. The only difference being that a writer can do it all alone. I was struck a few years ago when a friend of ours - an actress - was having dinner here with us and a couple of other writers. It suddenly occurred to me that she was the only person in the room who couldn't plan what she was going to do. She had to wait for someone to ask her, which is a strange way to live. — Joan Didion

The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves ... as suppliants admitted to a shrine. — Lewis H. Lapham

Denial may be neither a matter of telling the truth nor intentionally telling a lie. There seem to be states of mind, or even whole cultures, in which we know and don't know at the same time. — Stanley Cohen

Surrounding yourself with good people makes you feel better about yourself, making them strip tease makes you feel even better. — Alex Gaskarth