#pare

But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them. ↗

— John Sayles

#boots #compared #did #extras #god

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

#british #british people #call #contrast #democrats

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. ↗

— Karl Rove

#attacks #conservatives #indictments #liberals #offer

My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother. ↗

— Karl Rove

#been #collateral #commentators #damage #father

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#backgrounds #been #both #came #college

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#going #i #lone #meet #most

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#been #executive #greek #greek mythology #hard

You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV was very anarchic and it was about stuff that your parents would probably object to, if they got to object. And it's gotten very safe. ↗

— Dave Rowntree

#anarchic #anarchy #got #gotten #grew

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#begin #communal #compared #congress #covert

I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

#area #captured #claiming #football #fun