#serious

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#african american #american #classical #classical music #contract

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts. ↗

— John McGahern

#facts #fiction #i #i think #revelation

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. ↗

— George McGovern

#handicap #i #most #painful #presence

Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down. ↗

— David McNally

#down #enemy #get #how #knocked

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#bad #bad choices #choices #grow #help

I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#life #ourselves #prefer #seriously #take

I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#ever #i #movies #serious #think

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#across #down #gender #guy #history

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end. ↗

— Truman Capote

#beginning #big #difference #doing #end

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? ↗

— Prince Charles

#expect #first #history #me #mistress