#irs

It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#be strong #course #day #every #every day

It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#did #first #fond #i #kind

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#human #human affairs #serious #seriously #taken

I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#before #camera #digitally #documentary #done

Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#being #being myself #did #else #first

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness. ↗

— Heidi Murkoff

#because #craved #excess #first #get

When I was first pregnant, which was, let's see, in nineteen-eighty-three - I remember wearing a regular bathing suit to my in-laws' pool. It was just like a spandex one-piece, completely modest, and yet people were looking at me like it was obscene. ↗

— Heidi Murkoff

#bathing suit #completely #first #i #i remember

I can't believe that people actually know my first and last name. I think it's really, really, gosh-darn neat. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#believe #first #i #i think #know

Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life. ↗

— Dick Murphy

#family #first #fulfill #god #i

I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions. ↗

— Frank Murphy

#convictions #enjoys #estate #first #fourteenth