#mad

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anything #books #closer #human #human life

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort. ↗

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#affluence #ancient #comfort #culture #forced

No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. And the second thing is these are different times. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#album #am #artist #be true #change

I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#feel #i #know #like #made

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people. ↗

— Michael Palin

#believe #between #contrary #creating #leaders

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#always #chance #effort #entirely #even

I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#better #early #fear #figured #fly

I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The director just sort of found me and put me in a film, so the decision was really made for me. ↗

— Teresa Palmer

#cast #decision #deep #deep end #director

We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#ever #garden #got #i #investments

I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#everything #gave #had #hard #hard time