#ld

I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#because #get #good #i #la

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#course #director #heart #i #i think

Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#being #each #hollywood #old #other

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#books #compel #day #different #distinctly

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#felt #finished #had #hard #i

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#child #heart #magic #mind #parents

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#like #little #marsh #mint #white

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#i #less #life #little #little town

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#censor #citadel #contrary #convinced #hold

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#events #feel #feelings #journalism #look