#pre

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#beckett #had #i #light #much

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#bitter end #days #end #feet #get

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#being #famous #high #just #like

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S. ↗

— James K. Polk

#any #became #before #conception #congress

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#life #prepared #ready #them #things

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#actor #animosity #dead #every #living

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#continued #few #good #i #indicated

I wouldn't want to be President now! ↗

— Pat Robertson

#now #president #want

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#american people #door #failed #harry #harry reid

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#including #interests #liberty #over #precedence