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Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness. ↗

— James MacArthur

#merchant #sadness #walt #walt disney

We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys. ↗

— James MacArthur

#bad guys #black #black and white #down #freeman

You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all. ↗

— James MacArthur

#celebrities #complain #declare #drop #having

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#come #fish #fishing #fly #hesitation

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#closest #dying #eight #friends #getting

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#better #happened #i #i write #know

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#been #everybody #great #great passions #happens

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#henry james #impossible #james #me #read

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#help #her #him #however #i

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#best way #get #husbands #old #perhaps