#eve

It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#harder #invisible #kind #me #movie

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#administration #causes #cynicism #everything #his

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#believe #careful #clinton #companion #connection

I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#first #first time #gone #had #how

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#deal #events #going #great #great deal

I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#also #asleep #believer #connection #deep

Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it's something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I've been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#been #conversation #doing #every #feeling

Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#been #being #between #birds #came

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#day #every #every day #go #grew

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#enough #extent #i #legal #live