#lit

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. ↗

— George A. Moore

#beginning #cosmopolitan #end #in the beginning #in the end

Governor Scott Walker didn't know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin. He must have forgotten that Wisconsin is the Badger State. And badgers are scrappy little creatures. We may look cute, warm and fuzzy, but we have a fighting spirit. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#creatures #cute #fight #fighting #folks

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#been #congress #elected #ever #institution

Actually I did, because I saw the film like everyone else, ten years ago and I remembered some of it. I just wanted to see it, to kind of remember the tone a little bit. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#ago #because #bit #did #else

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#charisma #collectively #fall #hard #influenced

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#drama #emotional #emotional truth #hard #know

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#generate #hostility #writer

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

#awareness #behave #call #certain #certain way

I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

#audience #crazies #dance #did #i

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

#attention #comedy #comedy shows #i #kinds