#forming

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#because #comes #how #i #interviews

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed. ↗

— Dora Russell

#began #birth #birth control #britain #clinic

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#directing #film #forming #i #into

When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#conforming #culture #dominant #dominated #even

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#itself #like #moves #novel #time

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#comics #down #even #gags #got

Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#being there #business #dancing #fortunately #i

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser. ↗

— Richard Shelby

#community #country #ensure #fact #i

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. ↗

— Hu Shih

#cornell #incidents #language #led #question

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four. ↗

— Carly Simon

#do you know #done #how #i #know