#pre

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty. ↗

— Sacha Guitry

#serious #witty #you

Prejudices are what fools use for reason. ↗

— Voltaire

#prejudices #reason #use

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#artists #deeply #engaging #entire #everything

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope. ↗

— James Gunn

#change #character #characters #cope #environment

A precisely made iron chain 22 yards in length consisting of 100 links. ↗

— Edmund Gunter

#consisting #iron #length #links #made

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creative #creative writing #creative writing programs #foreign #foreign languages

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times. ↗

— David Halberstam

#career #case #created #fact #his

Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#barack obama #everything #few #follow #hard

Your personal capacity to handle more valuable projects will go up when you appreciate yourself more. ↗

— Brian Koslow

#capacity #go #handle #more #personal

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.' ↗

— Fawn Hall

#doing #else #everybody #everybody else #following