#lived

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american politics #benighted #career #closet #compromises

Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#crew #i #left #lived #months

If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#jaws #live #lived #shooting #through

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#most #our #outlived #their

I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate from college. I spent 13 years working in our family business. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#american dream #born #business #college #dream

I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#cobbled #down #i #industrial #lived

But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their efforts may have been - are sure to receive the thanks and blessings of its people. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#blessings #country #efforts #ever #happen

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#dime #down #glamorous #glamorous life #guess

The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#before #changes #country #degree #did

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#because #been #body #creating #defined