#be

I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves. ↗

— Leon Uris

#am #because #been #century #easter

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps. ↗

— Leon Uris

#book #corps #first #i #marine

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953. ↗

— Leon Uris

#best #book #cry #first #nine

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#careful #gone #intelligent #into #make

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#british #french #friends #good #resist

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#children #giving #more #our #owe

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation. ↗

— Roger Clemens

#angry #being #everybody #kind #me

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#crushed #describe #down #elite #highly

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#believe #best #contrary #first #friends

I've been very fortunate. I feel very thankful. I've been able to come home and do some fun things and make it exciting for people here at home. ↗

— Roger Clemens

#been #come #exciting #feel #fortunate