#old

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#anything #drunk #hold #office #person

Being old is such a treat! ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#old #such #treat

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#beauty #because #getting #getting old #great

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything! ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#away #because #get #i #i can

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

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#course #director #heart #i #i think

Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#being #each #hollywood #old #other

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#i #less #life #little #little town

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#censor #citadel #contrary #convinced #hold

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