#mm

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives. ↗

— John le Carre

#good #got #haven #i #immediately

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. ↗

— John le Carre

#away #both #community #his #i

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#generally #hollywood #i #makes #me

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#am #care #character #common #ever

The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#difference #immense #man #woman #working

I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#also #charles #college #ever #fairly

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#anyone #common #common denominator #denominator #fear

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.' ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#bible #boiled #book #carter #claim

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don't adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#adhere #am #any #before #christ

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#been #carry #commitments #democracy #effectively