#cia

All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them. ↗

— Kate Mara

#careers #clue #especially #fantasy #friday

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives. ↗

— Camilo Jose Cela

#literature #lives #times #which

Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA. ↗

— Ed Markey

#cia #just #military #off #relations

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#enchanting #every #heroes #life #nobler

I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#catching #especially #feeling #happen #happened

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#bar #council #even #high #high school

People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#apart #argue #car #different #driving

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me. ↗

— George R. R. Martin

#am #bad #book #director #effects

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. ↗

— Judith Martin

#class #classes #lower #middle #middle class

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue. ↗

— Judith Martin

#hypocrisy #sin #social #virtue