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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#arise #because #body #enact #execute

But most good movies have a gun in them. ↗

— David Sedaris

#good movies #gun #most #movies #them

I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#i #ideas #just #like #other

My characters always like themselves. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#characters #like #themselves

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself. ↗

— David Sedaris

#day #doing #get #i #iron

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly. ↗

— Kyra Sedgwick

#characters #deal #great #great deal #honestly

I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships. ↗

— Lisa See

#deeply #disappointed #dumped #friend #friendships

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. ↗

— Lisa See

#behind #call #china #contests #curtains

Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them. ↗

— Lisa See

#did #doing #done #family #finding

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#ever #i #listened #other #people