#icu

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#families #great #husbands #impulse #particularly

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#around #because #been #difficult #done

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#arithmetic #because #calculus #domain #fractions

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#always #be happy #difficult #easy #happier

I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#back #decision #enjoyed #federal #federal judge

I don't think I'm particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative. ↗

— Rhona Mitra

#anyone #creative #else #i #i am

There's nothing particularly physical that I find attractive in a man. It's men with a passion for something that I find attractive. ↗

— Rhona Mitra

#find #i #man #men #nothing

The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#brand #brand new #difficult #easy #envelope

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did. ↗

— Gretchen Mol

#anything #as far as #because #began #curriculum

People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous. ↗

— Moliere

#being mean #mean #mind #never #people