#at

I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it. ↗

— William H. Macy

#got #i #job #nomination #oscar

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know. ↗

— William H. Macy

#i #know #operatic #started #violence

All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic immigrant grudge against the next boatload approaching the shore. To defend one’s home and fields and ancestral graves against invasion seems a right. But to claim unique possession – to compound the fact of settlement with the aspect of a landscape into an abstract of eternal and immutable ownership – is a joke. ↗

— Neal Ascherson

#home

I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#honorable #i #i think #inculcated #me

If it’s always a feeling of just not being good enough – well you gotta let that one go – big time! ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity. ↗

— Lester Maddox

#breeds #discrimination #freedom #gives #greatness

I would love to try to win another game. Obviously, it's more fun when you win. I'd rather try and not win than not try at all. ↗

— Greg Maddux

#fun #game #i #love #more

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games. ↗

— Greg Maddux

#fastball #games #good #i #i think

At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#been #belonging #filled #had #hour

I started working around eigth grade. I remember doing a Doritos commercial where there were four days in a row of eating them, and I will tell you, I have not eaten many Doritos since. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#commercial #days #doing #eaten #eating