#more

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead. ↗

— David Mamet

#calling #dead #everybody #more #morning

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#broad #comedies #comedy #enjoy #grounded

When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#audition #auditioning #comedic #could #dramatic

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#democrats #independents #more #naturally #president

All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#after #became #bush #citizens #comfortable

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#adverse #adverse conditions #against #aggression #conditions

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#more #other #people #somebody #than

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#dying #his #man #more #own

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#experiences #feels #gregarious #intense #less

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#disease #leaves #makes #men #more