#ear

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#clearly #first #mind #must #see

I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good. ↗

— Van Morrison

#criticism #good #i #i do #most

I like to mix it up, yeah. I don't sort of think,'Oh, I need to do a comedy, I've done three dramas this year.' I don't think of it like that, but I definitely from project to project I feel like I want to just do something different all of the time and stop, I don't want to bore myself or anyone else. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#bore #comedy #definitely #different #done

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#children #conferences #courage #draw #go

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#after #another #anyone #anything #awful

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph. ↗

— John Mortimer

#carry #copy #daily #duty #england

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#always #bad #early #how #me

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong. ↗

— Terence

#make #nowadays #rewarded #right #those

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#always #died #disappeared #earliest #experience

Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#apparent #becomes #blinding #earth #exactly