#long

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#appearance #artificial #background #book #calculated

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#free #happy #health #health problems #her

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#born #country #everybody #fascism #history

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#enough #hope #journalists #keep #know

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#get #lavatory #life #little #long

I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them. ↗

— Bonnie Tyler

#around #been #bought #children #first

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#long-range #manager #perspective #view

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character. ↗

— Julie Benz

#how #longer #much #part #playing

I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations. ↗

— Peter Berg

#became #being #boxing #characters #cop

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#belongs #carousel #did #ever #first