#isi

I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time. ↗

— Mako

#draw #entertainment #form #games #happy

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#pleasures #revision #writing

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#battlefield #better #cost #however #ignorance

Raising the traditional and early retirement ages will mean extending workers' taxable earning years, fueling economic growth and putting a dent in our unfunded-liabilities crisis by delaying payouts. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#crisis #dent #early #earning #economic

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#band #clear #clear idea #every #how

Television wasn't prestigious. ↗

— Dorothy Malone

#television

Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#close #crisis #either #most #opportunities

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television. ↗

— David Mamet

#gotten #i #information #television #think

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously. ↗

— David Mamet

#away #based #days #evenings #family

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#academy awards #awards #been #compromised #count