#ear

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#anything #assumed #because #been #benign

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#chequered #got #humour #i #i think

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places? ↗

— Maggie Smith

#cancer #chemotherapy #else #everybody #everybody else

The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#been #beginning #coming #couple #energy

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#dearest #even #nearest #often #people

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought. ↗

— Margaret Chase Smith

#earned #expected #fought #honor #only

The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't. ↗

— Mark E. Smith

#being #hear #i #i can #i think

I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing. ↗

— Martha Smith

#controversy #i #i think #important #issues

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#experience #far #go #instruction #learned

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues. ↗

— Tony Snow

#best #exercised #issues #learn #people