#rap

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't. ↗

— Joe Manchin

#course #geographic #income #level #life

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for? ↗

— Marla Maples

#doing #go #i #look #old

I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them. ↗

— David Maraniss

#actually #after #although #bill #bill clinton

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. ↗

— Mary Ellen Mark

#after #direct #doing #honest #i

After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad. ↗

— Sterling Marlin

#airport #bad #dover #get #going

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ↗

— Charles Edward Montague

#easily #get #left #lie #out

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc. ↗

— George Seaton

#aunt #autobiographies #clever #clever people #distinctly

Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. ↗

— John Gardner

#art

We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn't really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us to go into a certain direction, so they could promote us easier. ↗

— Mark McGrath

#caught #certain #could #direction #easier

In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off! ↗

— Joel McHale

#beauty #britney #britney spears #face #grape