"The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?""
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"Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don't even miss them. I've outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there."
"Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth."
"The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life."
"We spend a big hunk of our lifetimes contemplating what we can't have, what we don't want and what's missing in our lives. What we have to learn is to put our attention and focus on contemplating what it is we would like to attract, and not on what is missing."
"What you feel is wrong or missing in your relationships is an indication that something is amiss within you."
"One of the reasons most people are not good at solving problems and manifesting or attracting into their life what they want is because their thoughts are always on what's wrong and on what's missing and on the problem."
"What you think about expands. If your thoughts are centered on what's missing, then what's missing, by definition, will have to expand."
"I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown."
"When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to."
"So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving."
"The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way."
"If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth."
"We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And I kind of miss it. I miss culture and civilization."
"But I miss screamin' and fightin' And kissin' in the rain And it's two a.m. and I'm cursin' your name You're so in love that you act insane And that's the way I loved you."
"Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you."
"You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world."
"You never truly understand what you are missing until you have it in your grasp and push it away."
"If you spend too much time watching and fantasizing others while they achieve their dreams you may well miss your own."
"Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do."