#picked

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever. ↗

— John Gunther

#city #comparison #copy #crime #crooks

Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#directed #eating #friend #him #i

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#business #conquered #forged #into #jesus

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#along #fame #felt #freedom #get

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. ↗

— James Rollins

#birthday #book #day #days #figured

Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#i #jerry #just #me #movie

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#always #definitely #different #duration #huge

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#chris #dead #film #get #independent

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee. ↗

— David Spade

#i #make #money #parker #picked

I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany. ↗

— Morgan Brittany

#brittany #called #change #character #first