#din

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#being #brought #detail #entertained #familiar

There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

#insecurity #much #people #sets #standing

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them. ↗

— Tommy Douglas

#being #buildings #i #mind #monument

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. ↗

— Rita Dove

#am #arts #comes #federal #federal funding

Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

#evenings #his #knew #nancy #press

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure. ↗

— Jim Doyle

#child #conscience #cure #disease #family

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.' ↗

— Edie Falco

#great #great idea #i #idea #love

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#building #complex #doing #europe #find

I'm happiest on set because I'm not myself. I'm someone else. The moustache, the dinner jacket. It's not me. You're always this sort of double, and it's liberating. Imagine being stuck with yourself... all those doubts. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#because #being #dinner #double #doubts

Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans. ↗

— David Duke

#committed #european #life #my life #rest