#nin

There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going. ↗

— Cheryl Ladd

#best #children #depression #did #eight

We have repeatedly issued warnings, over a number of years. Following these warnings and these calls, anti-American explosions took place in a number of Islamic countries. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

#calls #countries #explosions #following #islamic

I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#banks #capital #clear #everyone #function

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect. ↗

— James Lafferty

#advice #anything #aspiring #comes #craft

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#doctor #had #head #heard #him

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#determined #fighter #going #i #out

I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#done #else #i #including #life

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#beginning #career #career choice #choice #had

The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#different #different thing #film #happening #just

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#me #months #nine #pages #took