#pera

I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12. ↗

— Gavin MacLeod

#doing #getting #hours #i #i always

The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#commercial #commercial work #drama #greater #happen

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#broken #daily #dimly #i #ink

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#chains #cling #commonplace #desperately #escape

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. ↗

— James Madison

#faculties #first #government #insuperable #interests

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. ↗

— James Madison

#happiness #liberty #our #permanent #political

An operetta is simply a small and gay opera. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#opera #simply #small

'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism. ↗

— John Major

#blunder #commercial #does #encourage #gets

A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#community #cooperation #cover #ethnic #ethnic groups

Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#cecil #character #chief #commandments #daily