#rather

I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#actor #getting #good #good actor #good guy

And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before. ↗

— Chris Christie

#already #before #candidly #convinced #country

But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required. ↗

— Chris Christie

#easy #important #leaders #more #our

Rather be dead than cool. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#dead #rather #than

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#books #compelling #dreams #find #going

And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#be strong #constructed #fiction #film #get

For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#also #ask #awkward #decided #drives

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#conform #forced #freedom #had #manhood

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adventure #always #good #guarantee #inevitability

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die. ↗

— Claudette Colbert

#i #laugh #rather