Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Quote by Washington Irving

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Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where...

Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where...

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and...

It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and...

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming...

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming...

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a...

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a...

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun,...

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun,...

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will,...

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will,...

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with...

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with...

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the...

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the...

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the...

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the...

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with...

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with...

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure...

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure...

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with...

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with...

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an...

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an...

Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us...

Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us...

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at...

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at...