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Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#compliment #equality #friends #how #implies

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy. ↗

— Denis Norden

#explanation #got #offer #root #then

Panic strikes me when I think about a sentence that isn’t given the chance to live because I don’t have a pen in my hand or am not sitting near enough to someone familiar to speak it to. Especially if it’s a particularly good sentence, a sentence with truth or beauty or humor or sadness to it. The best ones always take you by surprise. They sneak into your head while you’re walking down the aisles at a supermarket, or flat-out assault you when you’re at your grandmother’s funeral, and you have to scramble to give the thought life before it’s gone forever. Cocktail napkins, palms, text messages sent to yourself. ↗

— Adi Alsaid

#writing #writing-life #beauty

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars. ↗

— Nick Nolte

#bit #costs #dollars #everything #film

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#competence #everything #politics #sincerity #strong

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#bright #empty #fill #hole #interesting

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#commit #crazier #crazy #crime #fault

Let's cause some senators distress. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#distress #senators #some

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to. ↗

— Tammy Wynette

#arms #cling #come #give #him

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy. ↗

— Graham Norton

#comedy #doing #ended #failed #i