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escaping who-i-am play
Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play. Alan Rickman
escaping way coping
I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening. Al Pacino
escaping political desire
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord. Edward Gibbon
escaping careers luck
There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident. Edmond H. Fischer
escaping singing world
Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. Edith Piaf
escaping useless prison
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison. Anton Chekhov
escaping naked bees
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him! Bram Stoker
escaping excesses folks region settled
Many of the folks that settled this region were from Alabama, escaping the excesses of Reconstruction. David Adams
escaping heaven saint
Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.
hands feelings excess
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived. Charles Caleb Colton
hands class two
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you! Charles Dickens
hands feet office
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. Charles Stross
hands soul half
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Charles Spurgeon
hands despair rope
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
hands soap calling
There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
hands ignorant used
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords Alan Watts
feelings age done
We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.
feelings words-of-wisdom deeds
"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."
feelings words-of-wisdom matter
It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!
feelings certain
In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.
feelings want cop
It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't. Alain Robert
feelings knows statues
I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling. Al Lopez
feelings dazzle christ
Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer
feelings way roles
I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it. Chiwetel Ejiofor
feelings littles world
I have the urge to still be part of the world, the universe, of life. Through music I have the feeling that I come a little closer to that. Dave Gahan