#had

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#comes #crying #diplomacy #disperse #embassy

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing. ↗

— Clark Gable

#go #had #hell #i #jumped

I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately. ↗

— Casper Van Dien

#football #had #haven #i #lately

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own? ↗

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

#had #how #husbands #i #many

In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out. ↗

— Joan Didion

#bothered #box #clean #during #fire

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#dream #fearless #had #i #monster

I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#grand #had #i #like #more

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#family #had #i #knew #neglect

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#advice #give #had #i #listen

I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#everywhere #fighter #france #had #i