I’ve done a few costume dramas, and people say, ‘What was it like wearing the costumes? Did they really help you with your character?,’ and most of the time it doesn’t make any difference. You’re wearing something a bit weird, and it’s sort of uncomfortable, but it doesn’t really have a huge impact on the part that you’re playing. Romola Garai Read Quote
When you sit down to eat at a table, you are ready to take in nourishment – we all need to eat to live. Even in primal tribes, people ate together. It’s the opening for friendship. Lidia Bastianich Read Quote
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. J. K. Rowling Read Quote
There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Christ. That, hands down, blows away every joke I’ve ever written. Steve Harvey Read Quote
Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn’t work that way. Alan Furst Read Quote
Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts. Elihu Root Read Quote
I don’t want to be all over the place with my style and my music, but I am experimenting. Mabel Read Quote
It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody’s face when they’re doing them is fun for the audience. Adrianne Palicki Read Quote
