#dl

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#america #both #category #chronic #class

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#been #child #classic #could #i

They have this big book called the "DSM-IV," you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people! ↗

— William Glasser

#big #book #called #crazy #crazy people

I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don't even know what it is yet. I've still been in the middle of it. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#answer #back #been #better #comes

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ↗

— George Eliot

#bred #cloudy #damp #despondency #egoism

My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#believe #comes #everything #follow #follow your heart

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#art #gone #hardly #interest #money

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#hit #hit single #responsibility #single #write

I hope to die in the saddle seat. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#hope #i #saddle #seat

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age. ↗