#do

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#blitz #brought #deal #did #great

If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#books #done #everything #five #i

When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#books #couple #done #go #holiday

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#creates #culture #does #innate #learning

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#baggage #down #emotional #empirical #how

-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#funny-and-random #humor #humorous #satire #wit

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#book #child #childhood #feel #hear

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#i #i do #same #telling #way

It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up. I never got to do Dan Pintauro. ↗

— Danny Pintauro

#am #ask #could #dan #down

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#doing #hit #i #last #love