#la

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#around #country #flies #heads #kids

Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#conference #done #forward #frame #mayors

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#amount #as far as #being #black #change

I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy. ↗

— Chubby Checker

#guy #happy #i #just #know

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. ↗

— John Cheever

#excellent #good #greater #hundred #latitude

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power. ↗

— John Cheever

#am #comprehend #consciousness #danger #going

I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

#first #i #la #met #moved

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#broken glass #glass #light #me #moon

I don't like my feet. I'm not crazy about anybody's feet. But I have flat feet. ↗

— Tina Fey

#anybody #crazy #feet #flat #i

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other. ↗

— Tina Fey

#each #i #like #men #much