#de

It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#enjoy #forth #goes #i #pancakes

Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the skateboard park', or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man'. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#character #described #fat #freeing #get

Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#acting #amadeus #appeared #audience #broadway

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#both #christmas #costly #deal #enjoy

When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats. ↗

— Charlie Melancon

#off #out #people #pulling #republicans

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#depth #i #off #pull #record

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

#doctrine #doubt #easy #entertain #esoteric

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

#coming #invade #life #pass #pretty

It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it. ↗

— William Lamb Melbourne

#first #impossible #instance #maintain #popular

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#compassion #destroy #fearlessness #human #human race