#oh

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#dickens #everything #faulkner #how #john

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#accepted #always #any #anything #blame

It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.' ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#anymore #celebrity #go #good #got

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time. ↗

— Clark Gable

#i #just #lucky #ohio #place

I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John. ↗

— Noel Gallagher

#apart #been #cool #down #elton

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. ↗

— George Galloway

#advocate #dr #english #great #i

Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#comedian #confines #done #i #lot

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#adding #american #american experience #broader #complexity

On her son Rene: Oh my God, when he's 20 years old what's going to happen to me? I'm gonna marry him. ↗

— Celine Dion

#going #gonna #happen #her #him

I eat 230 grams of protein daily, 308 grams of carbohydrates, maybe 70 grams of fat. I can have one cheat meal a week but it can't be that I eat until I'm stuffed; I eat until I'm satisfied. ↗

— Tyson Gay

#cheat #daily #eat #fat #i