#ok

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#christmas #christmas album #heading #looked #making

According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it. ↗

— Jay Leno

#bill #bill clinton #book #clinton #duh

I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking. ↗

— Jay Leno

#chicago cubs #choking #cubs #i #october

My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic? ↗

— Jay Leno

#important #me #paper #plastic #something

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#acting school #actor #around #been #bring

I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#am #ashamed #given #habit #had

You know, when I got started on television in the '80s, you would go to the costume department, and if you were a female they put you into a skirt. And you had a pocketbook, usually a shoulder bag. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#costume #department #female #go #got

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. ↗

— John Vinocur

#any #armies #bravery #disappears #emotions

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#cooks #more #process #story #writing

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#eighteen #me #months #takes #usually