#read

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#answerable #comes #creative #creative act #eden

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#i #important #know #listen #me

A lot of people, most people who are working, they do it for money. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. It so happens that I made a lot of money already, so I don't have to worry that much about it. I wouldn't fault anybody for doing it for the money, but it doesn't interest me right now. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#already #anybody #anything #doing #fault

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#empire #evil #evil empire #exist #life

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs. ↗

— Ruth Gordon

#conversational #dates #dreadfully #gray #gray hairs

For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#before #certain #during #eyes #knew

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI. ↗

— Bob Graham

#already #been #cia #classified #fbi

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. ↗

— Paul Graham

#already #expressing #language #pen #pencil

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money. ↗

— Phil Gramm

#american politics #friend #i #money #most

I think I'm a part of all the characters I play, definitely at different times in my life. In real life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like to read a lot I like watching T.V. I don't think I'm as interesting as my characters, but I like doing what I do. ↗

— Sprague Grayden

#definitely #different #different times #doing #i