#partly

This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#better #climate #constant #country #due

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#innate #learned #least #listening #looking

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#modern #old-fashioned #partly

I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment. ↗

— Anthony Rapp

#actor #because #creating #how #i

In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#budget #cases #except #few #films

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#am #because #best #entire #entire life

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right. ↗

— Bill Maher

#become #been #conservative #country #more

You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#done #enjoy #enjoy life #fun #get

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#build #curiosity #gets #going #i

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#arriving #because #begin #bird #dragons