#because

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#because #books #busyness #how #many

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ↗

— John Updike

#author #because #been #choices #door

The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#because #called #ever #get #here

When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#american film #because #doing #film #first

Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can't enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#back #because #creative #creative place #enjoy

People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#another #because #hurt #jealous #people

The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending. ↗

— Neil Cavuto

#because #before #convinced #ever #few

We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#attack #attacks #authorities #because #catastrophic

My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop. ↗

— Lacey Chabert

#because #call #called #dad #dynamite

That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#because #i #involved #nice #officially