#owed

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights. ↗

— Frank Murphy

#away #constitutional #constitutional rights #effect #false

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#after #artificial #away #bestowed #characters

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#desire #followed #grand #had #hamlet

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#during #father #followed #his #life

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset. ↗

— Jessye Norman

#grateful #horizons #i #i am #narrowed

The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe. ↗

— Kim Novak

#along #because #called #changed #chosen

We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#community #especially #legislators #million #music

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician. ↗

— Gary Numan

#always #anyway #been #before #create

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#artistic #been #commercial #define #fortunate

I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode. ↗

— Michael Nyqvist

#adopted #allowed #around #being #explode