#kin

Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors. ↗

— Mark Mothersbaugh

#collaboration #directors #happy #i #like

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#making #making up #other #statistics #telling

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#doing #emotionally #enjoy #i #intellectually

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#die #feel #hadn #i #lived

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.' ↗

— Andrew Motion

#i #know #now #places #soon

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#civil #civil disobedience #claims #consciously #disobedience

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#born #georgia #having #king #reared

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#down #encouragement #i #kind #lack

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#blacks #distance #father #his #kept

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#downs #effective #effective way #far #giving