#long

You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public. ↗

— Celia Cruz

#better #calling #career #coming #feel

There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in. ↗

— Ice Cube

#beach #central #city #emerge #long

I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating. ↗

— Kieran Culkin

#i #know #long #maybe #old

The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#because #close #delicate #down #longer

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#again #along #behave #closely #constantly

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#good #listeners #long #politicians #very

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

#back #before #ever #long #long time

My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#because #cost #deal #done #how

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#good #had #i #i feel #i feel like

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#am #considerations #current #drag #exerted