#now

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#couple #early #even #friends #get

Movie makers now choose profit over vision. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#makers #movie #now #over #profit

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#cease #himself #how #knows #laugh

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#diabetes #eat #get #know #many

You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#had #i #i think #know #life

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#amused #be happy #does #expected #genius

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#felt #finished #had #hard #i

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#book #diary #during #emotions #form

When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#i #know #longer #love #never

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#action #again #always #become #democracy