#age

As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

#control #director #egos #everything #give

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#cheesecake #commissioned #company #get #had

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#characterizes #comfortable #course #cynical #decline

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom. ↗

— Kenneth R. Miller

#christian #classroom #eager #i #introduce

I don't think I have the mileage on me to really complain of any injuries yet. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#complain #i #injuries #me #mileage

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#being #business #congress #did #elected

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#age #change #culture #feel #i

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors. ↗

— Beverley Mitchell

#being #being a teenager #criticism #dealing #gossip

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical. ↗

— Juliet Mitchell

#future #image #sense #worst

I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#also #any #army #brother #encouraged