My body is an avatar.
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
The sea drives truth into a man like salt.
In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially if the wealth has been accumulated rapidly. For great wealth is accumulated rapidly by cunning or chance, or a mixture of the two. Cunning has nothing to do with high qualities; it is rather a presumption against them; while chance has nothing to do with them either. Therefore it is that men are always complaining after meeting So-and-so, that he seemed to be astonishingly stupid, though he made a million in ten years and started as a pauper.
[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse
How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.
Money gives me pleasure all the time.
Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way. . . Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.
Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.