#cause

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#began #best #compose #ever #gave

I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#american #american spirit #because #before #books

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#been #caught #fights #food #inability

It was a really fun idea to have a fashion label with my sister but I don't have an awful lot of time for it because my first love and job is to be an actress. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#awful #because #fashion #first #first love

My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#being #career #had #i #massively

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#asked #because #been #before #car

There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#acting #because #being #considered #day-to-day

I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#average #because #buff #chan #character

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different. ↗

— Kate Millett

#circumstances #cultures #different #experiences #female

In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property. ↗

— Kate Millett

#because #boxed #days #farm #got