#ask

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#attempted #begun #close #done #each

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

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I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#eventually #generally #having #hoop #i

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. ↗

— Albert Camus

#asking #charm #clear #getting #question

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?' ↗

— John Malkovich

#collectively #compelling #evocative #group #how

Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English. ↗

— David Mamet

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Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself! ↗

— Gabriel Mann

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I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#asked #bonnie #central #central park #day

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#being #consists #idea #make #out

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.' ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#ever #every #every time #hit #home