#ear

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#friends #i #makes #more #people

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#ask #asks #beauty #deep #i

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#couple #early #even #friends #get

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#course #director #heart #i #i think

The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#i #interested #learned #me #more

The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#everlasting #experience #learning #lifetime #soul

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#books #compel #day #different #distinctly

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#child #heart #magic #mind #parents

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#because #consider #desire #despise #go

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#book #diary #during #emotions #form