#act

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq. ↗

— William Safire

#attack #characterize #choice #critics #current

I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#actually #begin #i #professionally #until

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#fact #had #hands #happen #i

I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#being #better #better mother #day #doing

I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#calling card #card #comfortable #fact #growing

I've never played a character that would sing. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#i #never #played #sing #would

I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#i #imagine #lawyer #lawyers #like

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#different #different way #extremely #intuitive #music

So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#ambition #character #earlier #had #her