#rites

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films. ↗

— Steve Kanaly

#cooper #favorites #films #gary #gary cooper

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. ↗

— Alfred Kazin

#make #minds #oneself #others #paper

But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material. ↗

— Ben Folds

#almost #any #back #center #go

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#comedy #funny #god #how #know

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship. ↗

— Thomas Ken

#care #chiefest #devoutly #first #give

Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#bunch #favorite #favorites #fun #i

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#his #little #lives #nature #nothing

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not. ↗

— Len Wein

#matter #period #someone #work #writer

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#attention #beach #book #capital #considers

Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#cale #four #hoffman #hypocrisy #hypocrites