#met

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#life #pay #purpose #rent #service

That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#actor #being #great #know #learn

These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again. ↗

— King Edward VIII

#brought #done #get #here #people

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation. ↗

— Ben Edwards

#active #activists #change #doers #doing

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#make #matter #matters #miserable #over

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#bad #content #feels #good #grown

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely. ↗

— Greg Egan

#book #boom #easier #edition #first

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#everything #found #generation #got #hip-hop

Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold. ↗

— Mara Liasson

#aloof #cold #comes #even #keel

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#course #ended #finished #having #just