#room

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#being #game #i #machines #novel

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything! ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#away #because #get #i #i can

It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off! ↗

— Gavin MacLeod

#doing #getting #glory #guy #hair

It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place. ↗

— Kelly Macdonald

#film #hiding #impact #kind #living

I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#constitutional #conversation #couch #distracted #easily

I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#bed #bedroom #chained #computer #day

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#cinema #expressing #expression #find #little

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead. ↗

— David Mamet

#calling #dead #everybody #more #morning

Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#been #clubs #come #concert #like

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#false #love #mushrooms #only #tell