#be

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#amount #as far as #being #black #change

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy. ↗

— Chubby Checker

#because #been #before #easy #industry

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old. ↗

— Chubby Checker

#his way #i #music #old #outlet

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. ↗

— John Cheever

#beauty #give #good #good prose #grief

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

#american #american writer #ball #ceremony #describe

I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah. ↗

— Tina Fey

#best friend #friend #i #oprah #play

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#average person #been #could #explain #i

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#happy #how #out #people #times

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.' ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#beautiful #eyes #hair #lovely #people

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.' ↗

— Tina Fey

#ask #away #doing #dreamed #ending